Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution
Studies in honour of Rene Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Published on 2. September 1992
Book
Hardback
632 pages
978-1-55619-462-7 (ISBN)
Description
For this volume, 30 well-known linguistics and researcher in related fields were invited to present an overview of their most important insights and theories as these have evolved over the past 30 years. Against the background of work done in other areas of study, the contributors reflect on the development of their ideas; the book shows what progress has been made, and how priorities have shifted these past decades. By placing current ideas in a wider historical perspective, Thirty Years of Linguistics Evolution will become a unique instrument for future generations of linguists to gain insight into the overall trends and problems that have dominated linguistics in the second half of the 20th century.
The impressive contributions to this volume provide a glowing and appropriate testimonial to the many years of effort which Rene Dirven has devoted to linguistic research and to the forging of contacts between scholars all over the world. The topics are wide-ranging, the titles intriguing, the content challenging. The whole has been scrupulously edited by Martin Puetz to provide a book which I am sure will be of considerable interest and value to scholars and students alike. David Crystal, Bangor, Wales.
The impressive contributions to this volume provide a glowing and appropriate testimonial to the many years of effort which Rene Dirven has devoted to linguistic research and to the forging of contacts between scholars all over the world. The topics are wide-ranging, the titles intriguing, the content challenging. The whole has been scrupulously edited by Martin Puetz to provide a book which I am sure will be of considerable interest and value to scholars and students alike. David Crystal, Bangor, Wales.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam/Philadelphia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
1190 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55619-462-7 (9781556194627)
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Content
1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Rene Dirven: A Biographical Sketch; 4. Rene Dirven: A Bibliography; 5. Introduction; 6. Section I. General Linguistics; 7. On the nature, use and acquisition of language (by Chomsky, Noam); 8. The concept of communicative competence revisited (by Hymes, Dell H.); 9. New ways of analysing meaning: The challenge to applied linguistics (by Halliday, M.A.K.); 10. The creole key to the black box of language (by Bickerton, Derek); 11. Twenty years after: A review of Peter Muhlhausler's pidginization and simplification of language (by Muhlhausler, Peter); 12. The changing English language - fiction and fact (by Crystal, David); 13. Section II. Applied Linguistics; 14. 'Very like a whale': Shifting paradigms in Applied Linguistics (by Brown, Gillian); 15. Section III. Grammar and Discourse Analysis; 16. Between grammar and discourse (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 17. Linguistics and grammatics (by Coulthard, Malcolm); 18. Institutional linguistics: Language and institutions, linguistics and sociology (by Stubbs, Michael); 19. Section IV. Semantics; 20. The search for universal semantic primitives (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 21. A theory of vocabulary structure: Retrospectives and prospectives (by Lehrer, Adrienne); 22. The return of hermeneutics to lexical semantics (by Geeraerts, Dirk); 23. Section V. Morphology; 24. The formats change - the problems remain: Word-formation theory between 1960 and 1990 (by Kastovsky, Dieter); 25. Section VI. Historical Linguistics; 26. The return of philology to linguistics (by Anttila, Raimo); 27. Section VII. Functionalism in Linguistics; 28. The why's and the how's in my research into functional sentence perspective (by Firbas, Jan); 29. Section VIII. Sociolinguistics and Languages in Contact; 30. Norwich revisited: Recent changes in an English urban dialect (by Trudgill, Peter); 31. Multilingualism and contact linguistics (by Nelde, Peter H.); 32. Multilingualism research in Australia: Tyranny of distance and challenges of a new society (by Clyne, Michael); 33. Codeswitching as socially motivated performance meets structurally motivated constraints (by Myers-Scotton, Carol); 34. Language attitudes in South Africa: Implications for a post-apartheid democracy (by Webb, Victor); 35. Section IX. Cognitive Linguistics; 36. Metaphors and war: The metaphor system used to justify was in the gulf (by Lakoff, George); 37. The symbolic nature of cognitive grammar: The meaning of of and of of-periphrasis (by Langacker, Ronald W.); 38. Diachrony within synchrony: The challenge of cognitive grammar (by Winters, Margaret E.); 39. The cognitive approach to natural language (by Radden, Gunter); 40. Section X. Cognitive Psychology; 41. The takeover of psychology by biology or the devaluation of reference in psychology (by Macnamara, John); 42. Section XI. Philosophical Linguistics; 43. Linguistic theory and epistemology of linguistics (by Swiggers, Pierre); 44. Section XII. Linguistics and Anthropology; 45. Linguistics and anthropology (by Keesing, Roger M.); 46. Section XIII. Computational Linguistics; 47. Where am I coming from: The reversibility of analysis and generation in natural language processing (by Wilks, Yorick); 48. Index