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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Variation in Indigenous Minority Languages
Edited By: James N. Stanford
Dennis R. Preston
URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Impact%2025
Series Title: IMPACT: Studies in Language and Society 25
Description:

Indigenous minority languages have played crucial roles in many areas of linguistics - phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, typology, and the ethnography of communication. Such languages have, however, received comparatively little attention from quantitative or variationist sociolinguistics. Without the diverse perspectives that underrepresented language communities can provide, our understanding of language variation and change will be incomplete. To help fill this gap and develop broader viewpoints, this anthology presents 21 original, fieldwork-based studies of a wide range of indigenous languages in the framework of quantitative sociolinguistics. The studies illustrate how such understudied communities can provide new insights into language variation and change with respect to socioeconomic status, gender, age, clan, lack of a standard, exogamy, contact with dominant majority languages, internal linguistic factors, and many other topics.

Publication Year: 2009
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9027218641
ISBN-13: 9789027218643
Prices: Europe EURO 105.00
U.S. $ 158.00
 
Format: Electronic
ISBN:
ISBN-13: 9789027289780
Prices: Europe EURO 105.00
U.S. $ 158.00