Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1992: Language, Communication, and Social Meaning

Voorkant
James E. Alatis
Georgetown University Press, 1 okt 1993 - 538 pagina's

This volume, based on the forty-third annual Georgetown University Round Table, covers a variety of topics ranging from the relationship of language and philosophy; through language policy; to discourse analysis.

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Inhoudsopgave

Margie Berns Purdue University
199
Joan Morley The University of Michigan
241
A view from the schools
259
Charles Ferguson Stanford University Professor emeritus
275
Pike Summer Institute of Linguistics
298
Swales The University of Michigan
316
Peter H Fries Central Michigan University and Hangzhou University
336
Elif Tolga Rosenfeld Georgetown University
353

James Dean Brown University of Hawaii at Manoa
117
John Moran Georgetown University
135
Diane LarsenFreeman School for International Training
158
Valette Boston College
174
Yamuna Kachru University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign
378
Nelson Indiana State University
403
Earl W Stevick Independent researcher
428
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Populaire passages

Pagina 90 - The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, ie, the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Pagina 315 - consists of standards for deciding what is, standards for deciding what can be, standards for deciding how one feels about it, standards for deciding what to do about it, and standards for deciding how to go about doing it.
Pagina 9 - They do not depend so much upon any one system (eg, tense, or nouns) within the grammar as upon the ways of analyzing and reporting experience which have become fixed in the language as integrated "fashions of speaking" and which cut across the typical grammatical classifications, so that such a "fashion" may include lexical, morphological, syntactic, and otherwise systemically diverse means coordinated in a certain frame of consistency.
Pagina 150 - He or she acquires competence as to when to speak, when not, and as to what to talk about with whom, when, where, in what manner. In short, a child becomes able to accomplish a repertoire of speech acts, to take part in speech events, and to evaluate their accomplishment by others.
Pagina 483 - As long as a particular disease is treated as an evil, invincible predator, not just a disease, most people with cancer will indeed be demoralized by learning what disease they have.
Pagina 71 - ... speaking is necessary for the establishment of language, and historically, its actuality always comes first. How would a speaker take it upon himself to associate an idea with a word-image if he had not first come across the association in an act of speaking?
Pagina 48 - It is suggested here that the three major topical subdivisions of this field are : (a) habitual language use at more than one point in time or space under conditions of intergroup contact; (b) antecedent, concurrent or consequent psychological, social and cultural processes and their relationship to stability or change in habitual language use ; and (c) behavior toward language in the contact setting, including directed maintenance or shift efforts.
Pagina 352 - Participant's alignment, or set, or stance, or posture, or projected self is somehow at issue. (2) The projection can be held across a strip of behavior that is less long than a grammatical sentence . . . Prosodic, not syntactic, segments are implied.
Pagina 276 - And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan: for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language...
Pagina 352 - Prosodic. not syntactic. segments are implied. 3 A continuum must be considered. from gross changes in stance to the most subtle shifts in tone that can be perceived. 4 For speakers. code switching is usually involved. and if not this then at least the sound markers that linguists study: pitch. volume. rhythm. stress. tonal quality.

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