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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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Query Subject:   Foreign Language Learning Disability and Linguistics
Author:   Andrea Osburne
Submitter Email:  click here to access email

Linguistic LingField(s):  Applied Linguistics
Neurolinguistics
Cognitive Science

Query:   Thu, 20 Nov 1997 21:16:24 -0500
Andrea Osburne
OSBURNEA@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU
Foreign Language Learning Disability and Linguistics

Recently we have discovered that some of the students in our introductory
linguistics course are taking it because they have been exempted from the
university language requirement as a result of a diagnosis of _foreign language
learning disability_. The Dean has placed them in our course as a substitute
for the requirement. Anything that gets students into linguistics courses is,
naturally, delightful, but we are wondering about this practice. Does anyone
have any information about it? Is it a standard procedure at other
institutions?

Andrea Osburne
osburnea@ccsua.ctstateu.edu
LL Issue: 8.1683
Date posted: 24-Nov-1997



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