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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."

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Title: The Making of a Language
Subtitle: The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice
Written By: Tomasz Wicherkiewicz
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Documentation 19
Description:

The book presents unique literature in a minority ethnolect - theGermanic dialect of Wilamowice in southern Poland. The manuscripts, written at the beginning of the 20th century, were discovered in 1989.The book contains full versions of several texts written by FlorianBiesik, who decided to create a literary standard for Wilamowicean in order to prove its non-German, but possibly Anglo-Saxon, Dutch, Flemish, or Frisian origin. Thus it presents both the dialectal literature and the most important elements of the local culture during the final stage of its extinction.From the Contents:1. Preliminaries2. Wilamowice as a linguistic enclave3. Origin of the ethnolect4. Literature in Wilamowicean5. Florian Biesik6. Florian Biesik's texts7. Orthographic and phonetic issues8. Grammatical issues9. Lexical semantics10. Language archaisms and dialectisms11. Ethnolinguistic issues

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): German

Versions:
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 311017099X
ISBN-13: N/A
Pages: xi, 539
Prices: Euro 98.00 / sFr 157,- / approx. US$ 98.