Hard-Science Linguistics

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Victor Yngve, Zdzislaw Wasik
A&C Black, Nov 25, 2006 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 382 pages
A cutting-edge linguistic theory book about hard-science linguistics - the scientific study of how people communicate >
 

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Contents

The Depth Hypothesis and the New HardScience Linguistics
3
Issues in HardScience Linguistics
14
An Introduction to HardScience Linguistics
27
Rules of Order
35
RECONSTITUTING PHONETICSPHONOLOGY
47
Towards a Physical Definition of the Vowel Systems of Languages
49
Articulatory Events are Given in Advance
67
An Outline of HardScience PhoneticsPhonology
87
Mayday or maider A Call for Help in Understanding Linguistic Change
225
Linguistic Change as Changes in Linkages FifteenthCentury English
241
SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES
257
The Victorian Stereotype of an Irishman
259
Needs as Expressed in Educational Discourse on the Basis of Textbooks in Linguistics
269
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
289
The Question of Translation
291
Communicating Scientific Experiments in Journal Articles
304

IN SEARCH OF CONTEXT
113
Reconstituting Notions of Reference
115
Reconstituting Austins Verdictives
129
Analysis of a Business Negotiation
142
Lottery Betting
174
VARIATIONAL AND HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS
189
Moving a Classic Applied Linguistics Study into the Real World
191
Describing Frisian Communities in Terms of Human Linguistics
214
DISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATIONS
319
The Riches of the New World
321
Coping with Cultural Differences
326
The Conduct of Hard Science Research
332
To be a Scientist
342
Contributors
368
Index
373
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Victor H. Yngve is Professor Emeritus in Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Chicago. Zdzislaw Wasik is Professor in the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.

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