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Language in Flux - Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution (Paperback, New)
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Language in Flux - Dialogue Coordination, Language Variation, Change and Evolution (Paperback, New)
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The papers in this collection present a view of language as an
evolving system within which flexibility is systemic and subject to
progressive change, driven by pressures of every-day coordinative
action as in conversational dialogue. As these papers demonstrate,
these pressures provide a force for variation, hence for
adaptation, and change. Topics covered include formal and
game-theoretical models of evolution, diachronic studies of change
(semantic, syntactic, lexical) and the role of dialogue factors in
promoting such change, psycholinguistic experimental methods
probing the nature of coordination in both language and
non-language based interaction, formal modelling of dialogue, and
probabilistic studies of language variation. Authors include highly
influential researchers: Joan Bresnan, Devyani Sharma and Ashwini
Deo; Robin Cooper and Aarne Ranta; Ronnie Cann and Ruth Kempson;
Miriam Bouzouita; Jonathan Ginzburg and Zoran Macura; Patrick
Healey; Gerhard Jaeger; Simon Kirby, Hannah Cornish and Kenny
Smith; Staffan Larson; Elizabeth Traugott. Together these papers
present a cross-disciplinary synergy reflecting the view that human
linguistic behaviour is essentially coordinative, and, within this
general perspective, that language is a system of intrinsic
flexibility, hence perpetually in a state of flux.This view
involves a radical shift in assumptions away from the traditional
view that language competence is a static system relative to which
the dynamics of language performance has to be defined; and each
paper, in its own way, explores what is involved in modifying such
a clear-cut division.
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Imprint: |
College Publications
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
August 2008 |
First published: |
August 2008 |
Editors: |
Robin Cooper
• Kem
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
344 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-904987-96-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Language & Literature >
Language & linguistics >
General
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LSN: |
1-904987-96-6 |
Barcode: |
9781904987963 |
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