Linguistics in Context--Connecting Observation and Understanding

by Deborah Tannen

Overview

The range of topics addressed in this collection can be seen in the titles of the four sections into which the chapters are grouped: Humanistic Approaches to Linguistic Analysis; The Nature and Uses of Language and Linguistic Theory; Poetry: Linguistic Analysis and Language Teaching; and Language Learning and Teaching. Among the contributors are A. L. Becker, Paul Friedrich, Paul Hopper, William Labov, Kenneth Pike, Harold Rosen, Emanuel Schegloff, Muriel Saville-Troike, H. G. Widdowson, and Deborah Tannen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893914554
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1988
Series:	Advances in Discourse Processes Series , #29
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Hometown:

Washington, D.C. metro area

Date of Birth:

June 7, 1945

Place of Birth:

Brooklyn, New York

Education:

B.A., Harpur College, 1966, Wayne State University, 1970; M.A. in Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 1976; Ph.D., 1979

Table of Contents

NEH LECTURES: HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
Language in Particular: A Lecture. Inarticulateness
The Autobiographical Impulse
Hearing Voices in Conversation, Fiction, and Mixed Genres
THE NATURE AND USE OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
Emergent Grammar and the A Prior: Grammar Postulate
Discourse as an Interactional Achievement II: An Exercise in Conversation Analysis
The Judicial Testing of Linguistic Theory
POETRY: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
Poetry and Pedagogy
The Unheralded Revolution in the Sonnet: Toward a Generative Model
Bridging Language Learning, Language Analysis, and Poetry via Experimental Syntax
LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING
From Context to Communication: Paths to Second Language Acquisition
Do We Learn to Read by Reading?
The Relationship Between Free Reading and Reading Ability
Language Learning and Language Teaching: Towards an Integrated Model
Author Index
Subject Index