Speaking for Nature

Imagery for Speaking

The Whorfian hypothesis has alternately attracted and repelled linguists and psycholinguists for generations. The polar reactions tend to come in waves. We currently seem to be entering a phase of attraction, due in no small part to Dan Slobin’s innovative extension of the Whorfian hypothesis to encompass thinking-for-speaking. The classic Whorfian hypothesis is fundamentally static. It presume...

A Model of Speaking Strategies for EFL Learners

This study intended to develop a model describing speaking strategies for EFL learners by taking into account the effects of learners’ gender and proficiency on the application of strategies. Accordingly, this study was planned to have two main analyses, namely qualitative and quantitative. In this respect, 30 EFL learners' viewpoints were sought, and then, based on the elicited responses, a 21...

Theoretically Speaking

The MIS Quarterly has always had a strong focus on building and testing theory. In this regard, most research articles published in the MIS Quarterly have proposed a theory and then tested it either in whole or in part. In the June 1998 issue of the MIS Quarterly, however, Bob Zmud as then Editor-in-Chief issued a call for pure-theory submissions: research article submissions that had the sole ...

Humanly Speaking

one will no doubt be as successful as its predecessors. It lacks something in connected thought, for its "chapters" are in reality different lectures given to a wide variety of audiences and necessarily pitched at different levels under titles by no means mutually exclusive. The book is thus best read as a series of essays and these include, as in the author's other writings, sex and society, t...

Does Nature Prefer Heterocycles?