Language in Use: A Reader

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Read me (before you read anything else in this Reader)
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Prologue
PART 1 LANGUAGE AND INTERACTION
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Introduction to Part 1: Language and Interaction
1.1 Harvey Sacks On the Preferences for Agreement and Contiguity in Sequences in Conversation
1.2 Bethan L. Davies Grice's Cooperative Principle: Meaning and Rationality
1.3 Rebecca Barry and Andrew John Merrison Language-in-Use: a Clarkian Perspective
1.4 Ronald R. Butters How Not to Strike it Rich: Semantics, Pragmatics, and Semiotics of a Massachusetts Lottery Game Card
1.5 Sara Mills Impoliteness
1.6 Karen Grainger Reality Orientation in Institutions for the Elderly: the Perspective from Interactional Sociolinguistics
1.7 Bethan Benwell and Elizabeth H. Stokoe University Students Resisting Academic Identity
PART 2 LANGUAGE SYSTEMS
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Introduction to Part 2: Language Systems
2.1 Ingo Plag Productivity and the Mental Lexicon
2.2 Arthur Hughes, Peter Trudgill and Dominic Watt Regional Accent Variation
2.3 Michael A.K. Halliday Language in a Social Perspective
2.4 Rachel Sutton-Spence and Bencie Woll Constructing Sign Sentences
2.5 James Milroy Giving a History to English
2.6 Andrew Goatly Metaphor and Relevance
2.7 Jill Hadfield and Charles Hadfield with Anthea Gupta Travels with Auntie
PART 3 LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
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Introduction to Part 3: Language and Society
3.1 Robert B. Le Page and Andrée Tabouret-Keller Acts of Identity
3.2 Ellen Bialystok Bilingualism at School: Effect on the Acquisition of Literacy
3.3 David Crystal An English Family of Languages?
3.4 Sue Wright Language Education and Foreign Relations in Vietnam
3.5 Graham H. Turner Why Protect Heritage Sign Languages?
3.6 Norman Fairclough Language and Discourse
3.7 Tony McEnery How British Men and Women Swear
PART 4 LANGUAGE AND MIND
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Introduction to Part 4: Language and Mind
4.1 Loraine K. Obler and Kris Gjerlow How We Know What We Know about Brain Organization for Language
4.2 Charles Goodwin, Marjorie H. Goodwin and David Olsher Producing Sense with Nonsense Syllables: Turn and Sequence in Conversations with a Man with Severe Aphasia
4.3 Steven Pinker Language Acquisition: How Do They Do It?
4.4 Michael Jeffrey Farrar Negative Evidence and Grammatical Morpheme Acquisition
4.5 Holger Diessel Learning versus Growth
4.6 Todd R. Haskell, Maryellen C. MacDonald and Mark S. Seidenberg Language Learning and Innateness: Some Implications of Compounds Research
4.7 Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen The Semiotic Landscape
4.8 Michael E.R. Nicholls, Dara A. Searle and John L. Bradshaw Read My Lips: Asymmetries in the Visual Expression and Perception of Speech Revealed through the McGurk Effect
Epilogue
Index
Useful websites
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) Chart