Towards a Social Science of Language Papers in Honour of William Labov Volume 2 Social Interaction and Discourse Structures

Guy Gregory R et al Edit

ISBN 10: 9027236313 / ISBN 13: 9789027236319

Edité par John Benjamin's Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 1997

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From a university library with the usual stamps and labels. Apart from the library provenance a clean tight copy. One of the Amsterdam Studies in the Theory of Linguistic Science Series. Series IV Current Issues in Linguistic Theory. Volume 128. N° de réf. du vendeur A00001395

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Titre : Towards a Social Science of Language Papers ...

Éditeur : John Benjamin's Publishing Company, Amsterdam and Philadelphia

Date d'édition : 1997

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket

Edition : First Edition.

Type de livre : A00001395

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This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic dynamics of variation and change (II). The study of African American English, and other language varieties in the Americas spoken by people of African descent and influenced by their linguistic heritage, is the subject of the papers in section III of the first volume. The third theme is the study of discourse; the papers in section I of the second volume develop themes in Labovian linguistics that go back to Labov's work on narrative, descriptive, and therapeutic discourse. Fourth is the emphasis on language use, the search for discursive, interactive, and meaningful determinants of the complexity in human communication. Papers with these themes appear in section II of the second volume.