Although sociolinguists have performed a valuable service in challenging folk theories about African American English (AAE), they also have unwittingly participated in the construction of sociolinguistic folklore about variation and change in AAE. Several examples of sociolinguistic myths are presented, including the supraregional myth, the change myth, and the social stratification myth. Data ...

Several studies have investigated the relation between information structure and intonation structure. Few studies however have investigated this relationship empirically using natural face-to-face conversations. The current study explores this relation using a large corpus of face-to-face conversations on a map navigation task. In this task dialogue partners sometimes do and sometimes do not h...

This study investigates the structure of Struckman-Johnson and Struckman-Johnson's Male Rape Myth Scale, examines gender differences in rape myth acceptance, and explores the underlying ideologies that facilitate male rape myth acceptance. A three-factor model, with rape myths regarding Trauma, Blame, and Denial as separate subscales, is the best fitting solution. However, the results indicate ...

The concept of genre is as old as literary theory itself, but centuries of debate haven’t produced much consensus on the topic. Part of the reason is that genre looks like a different thing at different points in the life of a text. Scholars of rhetoric tend to focus on the patterns of communicative action that produce memoranda or tragedies (Devitt 2004; Miller 1984). Sociologists are sometime...

In the 1960s and 1970s this formalist version seen in previous chapter began to show signs of fatigue. Some critics art historians interest personages on stage Les Demoiselles. Early John Nash linked damsel squatting at lower right canvas with myth Medusa. Leo Steinberg immediately formulated a series questions that constituted direct attack against version. Why should we examine painting prese...

Quo Vadis, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences? The so-called Economics is not one of the original Prizes according to testament A. B. Nobel. Although it has been target various critics since its inception 1969, become most prestigious economic award. paper summarizes more than 50 years history this award, including focus laureates, and asks - sometimes provocative questions about perspectives sci...

historical memory or collective memory, in studies on cultural history and history of ideas, is often neglected. it is sufficient, for example, look at the names and titles to learn of the common view of a nation. this is true about alexander’s image in our culture. in our culture and some others, alexander is a myth and sometimes a unique hero. shahnameh can demonstrate this historical memory ...

Advances in technology, while improving the conditions and modes of travel, have not obviated its dangers or reduced the mythical content and potential of travel experience. The present essay attempts a provisional survey of foreign travel as a recurring motif in the history of consciousness and as a mythically redolent theme in literature, film, and other forms of expression. Critical expositi...