The Social Life of Language
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
396 pages
978-1-5128-0958-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0958-9 (9781512809589)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. Language in Social and Historical Space
- Introduction
- 1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea
- 2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches
- 3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence
- 4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules
- 5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea
- 6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries
- 7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities
- 8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa
- 9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model
- II. Studies of Particular Linguistic Variables
- Introduction
- 10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language
- 11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives
- 12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin
- 13. Anything You Can Do
- 14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French
- 15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and être in Montréal French
- Bibliography
- Indexes
