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The article analyzes the organization and interpretation of text through selected linguistic, anthropological, sociological and critical approaches. The author focuses on the status of text as a sociocultural product and process, voicing in text, elements of textual organization, the relation between text and power in social contexts and several ethnographic text studies. Text, when used as a mass noun can be taken to designate any configuration of signs that is coherently interpretable by some community of users. Textuality, on the other hand, refers to the quality of coherence or connectivity that characterizes text.

The article discusses the history and development of Japanese sociolinguistics. The establishment of the National Language Research Institute in 1949 gave birth to Japanese sociolinguistics as it is devoted on research concerning the relationship between language and society. Several school of language in Japan includes kokugokaku and gengokaku which differ from each other in terms of topics, interpretive principles and methods. Linguistic discipline in Japan matures from active research, and language standardization processes reflecting the structure of the Japanese society.

The article provides information about bilingualism, an anthropological evidence that has proven fertile ground for deriving insights into the subject matter of fields whose immediate interests have different focal points. This literature provides an understanding of the nature of bilingualism has benefited from the insights brought to it by investigators representing different points of view. It talks about bilingualism as a phenomenon that has occupied the attention of linguists, psychologists, sociologists, and educators, among others, each group approaching the it from its own point of view and in the interests of its own discipline.

The article explores three topics in neurolinguistics which seem to be of current interest the question of localization of language function in the brain, linguistic and neurological analyses of aphasia, and manipulative studies of brain and language functions. The understanding of the localization of language function in the brain starts with the history of our understanding of the functions of regions of the cerebral cortex is one of the most astonishing stories in medicine. Meanwhile, aphasia is studied through a review of several clinical neurology, psychiatry and neurosurgery studies. On the other hand, the manipulative studies of brain and language functions focus on the investigation of the relationship between brain mechanisms and language.

The article presents a literature review of the different epistemological and philosophical discussions aimed at revealing the basis of analogy between anthropology and linguistics. This anthropological literature explains the similarity between the goals and the subject-matter of both anthropology and linguistics. Furthermore, it describes linguistic models that have been used in cultural anthropology as well as highlights the various degrees of success in the use of the models. Finally, it suggests the overall impact of the use of the linguistic model in anthropology.

The article presents a literature review that discusses the importance of American Indian linguistics. It also presents a summary of the state of description and comparative work for each linguistics family. It presents a classification of American Indian linguistics as well as the role of various language families and the interrelationships among postulated families. Though space limitations have dictated a narrowly linguistic concern in this literature and the ethnographic semantics are omitted, possible wider relationships of the families and classifications were still discussed.

The article presents a literature review that discusses the linguistic theory in relation to syntax, semantics and pragmatics. It provides a definition of linguistic theory, the details of issues of theory in syntax and semantics and some of the problems in accountability. Furthermore, the literature includes a discussion of the criteria which involve category and rule types, rule applicability, naturalness of linguistic generalizations, and diachrony versus synchrony. This provides a discussion of the more restricted area which is based principally on the linguistic theory as defined by the transformational generative point of view.