Language in Use: A Reader

by Griffiths; Patrick

• ISBN13: 9780415442046
• ISBN10: 0415442044
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-19
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Language in Use is the definitive reader for introductory students of English language and linguistics.

Author Biography

Patrick Griffiths has taught at the University of York and York St John University in the UK, and internationally at the University of the South Pacific and Beppu University, Japan. Andrew John Merrison has taught at the Universities of Durham, Edinburgh and York, and at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh. He is currently a senior lecturer in linguistics at York St John University. Aillen Bloomer has taught linguistics and applied linguistics at York St John University where she now holds the title of Fellow. She has also taught in Warwick, Sweden, Germany, Vietnan and China.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Read me (before you read anything else in this Reader)	p. xvii
Bookmaps	p. xxiii
Transcription conventions	p. xxvii
Prologue	p. xxxi
Language and Interaction	p. 1
Partmaps	p. 2
Language and Interaction	p. 4
On the Preferences for Agreement and Contiguity in Sequences in Conversation	p. 8
Grice's Cooperative Principle: Meaning and Rationality	p. 23
Language-in-Use: a Clarkian Perspective	p. 37
How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of a Massachusetts Lottery Game Card	p. 47
Impoliteness	p. 59
Reality Orientation in Institutions for the Elderly: the Perspective from Interactional Sociolinguistics	p. 69
University Students Resisting Academic Identity	p. 82
Language Systems	p. 99
Partmaps	p. 100
Language Systems	p. 102
Productivity and the Mental Lexicon	p. 106
Dominic Watt Regional Accent Variation	p. 115
Language in a Social Perspective	p. 128
Constructing Sign Sentences	p. 140
Giving a History to English	p. 147
Metaphor and Relevance	p. 157
Travels with Auntie	p. 168
Language and Society	p. 177
Partmaps	p. 178
Language and Society	p. 180
Acts of Identity	p. 183
Bilingualism at School: Effect on the Acquisition of Literacy	p. 190
An English Family of Languages?	p. 200
Language Education and Foreign Relations in Vietnam	p. 211
Why Protect Heritage Sign Languages?	p. 227
Language and Discourse	p. 234
How British Men and Women Swear	p. 242
Language and Mind	p. 257
Partmaps	p. 258
Language and Mind	p. 260
How We Know What We Know about Brain Organization for Language	p. 263
Producing Sense with Nonsense Syllables: Turn and Sequence in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia	p. 272
Language Acquisition: How Do They Do It?	p. 286
Farrar Negative Evidence and Grammatical Morpheme Acquisition	p. 295
Learning versus Growth	p. 313
Language Learning and Innateness: Some Implications of Compounds Research	p. 323
The Semiotic Landscape	p. 344
Read My Lips: Asymmetries in the Visual Expression and Perception of Speech Revealed through the McGurk Effect	p. 350
Epilogue	p. 359
Index	p. 361
Useful websites	p. 382
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Chart	p. 384
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