Language : Readings in Language and Culture

by Virginia Clark; Paul Eschholz; Alfred Rosa

• ISBN13: 9780312133085
• ISBN10: 0312133081
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1998-02-15
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

Language provides a foundation in linguistic theory with readings that give personal, cultural, and political contexts for examining how language functions in our lives. The 56 selections reflect current topics in the study of language and offer a careful balance between classic theoretical statements and important recent articles.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Internet Resources for Language Study	xii
Part One LANGUAGE AND PERSONAL IDENTITY	1	(40)
Talking in the New Land	3	(10)
Edite Cunha
Finding a Voice	13	(6)
Maxine Hong Kingston
Native Tongues	19	(8)
Nancy Lord
Shakespeare in the Bush	27	(14)
Laura Bohannan
Projects for ``Language and Personal Identity''	37	(2)
Selected Bibliography	39	(2)
Part Two LANGUAGE AND ITS STUDY	41	(70)
Nine Ideas about Language	43	(18)
Harvey A. Daniels
Language: An Introduction	61	(13)
W. F. Bolton
True Language?	74	(4)
The Ohio State University Language Files
Sign Language	78	(18)
Karen Emmorey
Nonverbal Communication	96	(15)
George A. Miller
Projects for ``Language and Its Study''	105	(3)
Selected Bibliography	108	(3)
Part Three PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY, AND MORPHOLOGY	111	(70)
Phonetics	113	(21)
Edward Callary
The Minimal Units of Meaning: Morphemes The Ohio State University Language Files	134	(10)
The Identification of Morphemes	144	(10)
H. A. Gleason Jr.
Word-Making: Some Sources of New Words	154	(12)
W. Nelson Francis
Literary Metaphors and Other Linguistic Innovations in Computer Language	166	(15)
Kelvin Don Nilsen
Alleen Pace Nilsen
Projects for ``Phonetics and Phonology, and Morphology''	177	(2)
Selected Bibliography	179	(2)
Part Four SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS	181	(84)
What Do Native Speakers Know about Their Language?	183	(6)
Roderick A. Jacobs
Peter S. Rosenbaum
Syntax: The Structure of Sentences	189	(36)
Frank Heny
Bad Birds and Better Birds: Prototype Theories	225	(15)
Jean Aitchison
The Tower of Babel	240	(25)
Steven Pinker
Projects for ``Syntax and Semantics''	257	(4)
Selected Bibliography	261	(4)
Part Five LANGUAGE VARIATIONS AND DISCOURSE	265	(90)
Speech Communities	267	(10)
Paul Roberts
Social and Regional Variation	277	(15)
Albert H. Marckwardt
J. L. Dillard
Dialects: How They Differ	292	(21)
Roger W. Shuy
The Study of Nonstandard English	313	(8)
William Labov
Pidgins and Creoles	321	(7)
David Crystal
``It Bees Dat Way Sometime'': Sounds and Structure of Present-Day Black English	328	(27)
Geneva Smitherman
Projects for ``Language Variations and Discourse''	344	(4)
Selected Bibliography	348	(7)
Part Six GENDER-BASED LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES	355	(54)
Girl Talk---Boy Talk	357	(8)
John Pfeiffer
``I'll Explain It to You'': Lecturing and Listening	365	(14)
Deborah Tannen
Ethnic Style in Male-Female Conversation	379	(13)
Deborah Tannen
The Names of Women	392	(5)
Louise Erdrich
Men, Women, Computers	397	(12)
Barbara Kantrowitz
Projects for ``Gender-Based Language Differences''	405	(2)
Selected Bibliography	407	(2)
Part Seven HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE CHANGE	409	(68)
Comparative and Historical Linguistics	411	(5)
Jeanne H. Herndon
The Family Tree and Wave Models The Ohio State University Language Files	416	(4)
A Brief History of English	420	(11)
Paul Roberts
Language Change: Progress or Decay?	431	(11)
Jean Aitchison
To Be Human: A History of the Study of Language	442	(35)
Julia S. Falk
Projects for ``Historical Linguistics and Language Change''	470	(4)
Selected Bibliography	474	(3)
Part Eight LANGUAGE VARIETY AND CULTURE	477	(50)
Bilingual Education: Outdated and Unrealistic	479	(4)
Richard Rodriguez
It's the Talk of Nueva York: The Hybrid Called Spanglish	483	(6)
Lizette Alvarez
Not White, Just Right	489	(3)
Rachel L. Jones
Saving California Languages	492	(11)
Katharine Whittemore
How Do You Say Computer in Hawaiian?	503	(11)
Constance Hale
Rearing Bilingual Children in a Monolingual Culture: A Louisiana Experience	514	(13)
Stephen J. Caldas
Suzanne Caron-Caldas
Projects for ``Language Variety and Culture''	522	(2)
Selected Bibliography	524	(3)
Part Nine CHILDREN AND LANGUAGE	527	(100)
The Acquisition of Language	529	(27)
Breyne Arlene Moskowitz
Developmental Milestones in Motor and Language Development	556	(4)
Eric H. Lenneberg
Predestinate Grooves: Is There a Preordained Language ``Program''?	560	(20)
Jean Aitchison
How Children Learn Words	580	(8)
George A. Miller
Patricia M. Gildea
The Development of Language in Genie: A Case of Language Acquisition beyond the ``Critical Period''	588	(21)
Victoria Fromkin
Stephen Krashen
Susan Curtiss
David Rigler
Marilyn Rigler
Genie: A Postscript	605	(4)
Maya Pines
Teaching How to Talk in Roadville: The First Words	609	(18)
Shirley Brice Heath
Projects For ``Children and Language''	620	(3)
Selected Bibliography	623	(4)
Part Ten LANGUAGE, THOUGHT, AND THE BRAIN	627	(76)
Language and Thought	629	(5)
David Crystal
Brain and Language	634	(24)
Jeannine Heny
Signals, Signs, and Words: From Animal Communication to Language	658	(23)
William Kemp
Roy Smith
The Continuity Paradox	681	(22)
Derek Bickerton
Projects for ``Language, Thought, and the Brain''	697	(3)
Selected Bibliography	700	(3)
Part Eleven LANGUAGE, READING, AND WRITING	703	(60)
Languages and Writing	705	(18)
John P. Hughes
What Makes Good English Good?	723	(11)
John Algeo
Its Academic, or Is It?	734	(3)
Charles R. Larson
Like I Said, Don't Worry	737	(3)
Patricia T. O'Conner
Sociolinguistic Analysis of Dialogues and First-Person Narratives in Fiction	740	(9)
Barbara Hill Hudson
Into the Electronic Millennium	749	(14)
Sven Birkerts
Projects for ``Language, Reading, and Writing''	759	(2)
Selected Bibliography	761	(2)
Glossary	763	(9)
Author and Title Index	772	(2)
Subject Index	774