Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution

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