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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students,
researchers and practitioners in all of the social and
language-related sciences carefully selected book-length
publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings
and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in
its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary
field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical,
supplement and complement each other. The series invites the
attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests,
sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians
etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
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On Conditionals (Paperback)
Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Alice Ter Meulen, Judy Snitzer Reilly, Charles A. Ferguson
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R1,395
Discovery Miles 13 950
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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On Conditionals provides the first major cross-disciplinary account
of conditional (if-then) constructions. Conditional sentences
directly reflect the language user's ability to reason about
alternatives, uncertainties, and unrealised contingencies. An
understanding of the conceptual and behavioural organisation
involved in the construction and interpretation of these kinds of
sentences therefore provides fundamental insights into the
inferential strategies and the cognitive and linguistic processes
of human beings. The present volume brings together studies from
several perspectives - philosophical, linguistic and psychological
- and aims to emphasise the intrinsic connections between the
issues to be addressed and to point to new directions for
interdisciplinary work.
Language in the USA is a volume of specially commisioned studies on
the language situation in America, how it came to be the way it is,
and the forces of changes within it. The USA has its own unique
pattern of languages: American English, the principal language,
different in structure and use from other kinds of English in the
world; two hundred American Indian languages, some of them
flourishing as never before; Spanish, spoken in North America
before English and now the second most important language in the
country; a cost of immigrant languages, each with a different
history of accommodation to the American scene. The book explains
the place of these various languages and how they are used in
education, the professions, and general communication. One
objective of the editors was to provide background information on
such issues as legalese, Black English, bilingual education, Indian
alphabets, correct English. Another objective was to stimulate
interests in the facts of language use in local communities and in
the nation. Language in the USA is a work of reference, which gives
an accessible account of the very considerable research in this
area done in the last twenty years or so by linguists,
sociologists, educationalists, and anthropologists. There is no
comparable published source, and it should prove of great value to
all those who are professionally involved in these issues or who
wish to take a responsible interest in them.
First published in 1977, this book draws together various
contributions on the area of speech used by parents with their
children. Numerous perspectives on the topic include the comparison
of baby talk with other simplified registers by linguists, the
analysis of cross-cultural differences in mother and child
interaction by anthropologists, and the relation of language
development to differences in styles of childcare and the child's
social environment in general by psychologists. The text had its
origins in a conference sponsored by the Sociolinguistics Committee
of the Social Science Research Council. It will be of value to
anyone with an interest in language acquisition and development.
The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three
decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the
forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and
society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal
papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and
the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range
of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the
intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field.
The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an
introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's
ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is
essential reading for everyone interested in the field of
sociolinguistics.
The work of the linguist Charles A. Ferguson spans more than three
decades, and is remarkable for having been consistently at the
forefront of scholarship on the relationship between language and
society. This volume collects his most influential and seminal
papers, each having expanded the parameters of sociolinguistics and
the sociology of language. Taken together, they cover a wide range
of topics and issues, and, more importantly, reflect the
intellectual progress of a founder of the sociolinguistic field.
The volume is divided thematically into four sections, and an
introduction by Thom Huebner outlines the evolution of Ferguson's
ideas and the impact they have had on other scholars. This book is
essential reading for everyone interested in the field of
sociolinguistics.
Additional Authors Include Mary I. Shamburger, Vera R. Lachmann,
Russell K. Alspach And Others.
Contributing Authors William Bright, M. Shanmugam Pillai, Edward C.
Dimock And Others. International Journal Of American Linguistics,
V26, No. 3, Part 3.
Although grammatical agreement or concord is widespread in human
languages, linguistic theorists have generally treated agreement
phenomena as secondary or even marginal. All the papers in this
volume, however, take agreement phenomena seriously, as presenting
either a general issue in theory construction or a descriptive
problem in particular types of languages. The theoretical
perspectives range from purportedly theory-neutral typological
frameworks to assumptions about the validity of one or another
current formal model. Further, the degree of generality ranges from
a universalist nature-of-human-language agenda to concern with one
or another aspect of grammatical agreement or with agreement in a
single language or language group.
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