The Social Life of Language
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The Social Life of Language

  1. 396 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Social Life of Language

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Introduction
  4. I. Language in Social and Historical Space
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Political Power and Linguistic Inequality in Papua New Guinea
  7. 2. Language Use in Multilingual Societies: Some Alternate Approaches
  8. 3. A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence
  9. 4. Above and Beyond Phonology in Variable Rules
  10. 5. Multilingualism in Papua New Guinea
  11. 6. Mutual Intelligibility, Bilingualism, and Linguistic Boundaries
  12. 7. Wave Versus Stammbaum Explanations of Lexical Similarities
  13. 8. Cognitive Variability and New Guinea Social Organization: the Buang Dgwa
  14. 9. Quantitative Analysis of Sharing and Variability in a Cognitive Model
  15. II. Studies of Particular Linguistic Variables
  16. Introduction
  17. 10. On the Acquisition of Native Speakers by a Language
  18. 11. The Origins of Syntax in Discourse: A Case Study of Tok Pisin Relatives
  19. 12. Variability and Explanation in Language and Culture: Cliticization in New Guinea Tok Pisin
  20. 13. Anything You Can Do
  21. 14. The Productive Use of ne in Spoken Montréal French
  22. 15. The Alternation Between the Auxiliaries avoir and ĂȘtre in MontrĂ©al French
  23. Bibliography
  24. Indexes