Studies in Language Variation: Semantics, Syntax, Phonology, Pragmatics, Social Situations, Ethnographic ApproachesMany linguists have moved beyond the study of language isolated from its use and have examined the interaction of linguistic rules with the pragmatics of language in context. At the same time, many scholars have taken a sociological approach to the structure of conversation and other communicative events. A number of anthropologists are adding language variation to their traditional interest in language in relation to cultural phenomena. Linguists who work in semantics, syntax, and phonology have also expanded their interests to include language variation.From the Preface |
Contents
Robert Berdan | 12 |
Mark R Baltin | 30 |
James McCawley | 51 |
Erica García and Ricardo Otheguy | 65 |
David Zubin | 88 |
Muriel Saville | 108 |
Syntactically versus pragmatically controlled anaphora | 120 |
Phil Tedeschi | 136 |
Alice Myers | 171 |
Gillian Michell | 184 |
LANGUAGE VARIATION IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS | 198 |
Charlotte Linde | 226 |
ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE VARIATION | 255 |
William O Beeman | 269 |
and the ecology of language | 283 |
Alice Davison | 152 |
Common terms and phrases
accusative active addressee adult alternation ambiguous analysis anaphora Anglo animacy antecedent Apachean appear auctioneer Chicago Linguistic Society Chomsky clitic comprehension conditional sentences consonant constraints context conversational postulates conveyed dative definite article deletion dialectal differences discourse Ecco il ragazzo English environments evaluation measure example expected fact factors gender grammar Hankamer hearer Here's the boy illocutionary act illocutionary force implicature indirect speech acts individuals interaction interpretation irony Labov Lakoff language acquisition leísmo lexical lo/la maxim meaning morpheme noun object paper past tense pattern performative person phonological plural possible predicted present pronoun Prorel question range of worth refer Regional Meeting relationship relative clause relative pronoun relevant request responses rule semantic sentence adverbs server situation social speaker strategies structure suggested bid surface syntactic Table tag question tences tion underbid utterances variable variation verb William Labov words