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New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics
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This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982, to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past, the current status, and directions to be explored in the immediate future.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 32] 1984. xi, 269 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 18 March 2011
Published online on 18 March 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Preface. Linguistics at Rice University: The first two decadesJames E. Copeland | p. vii
- Introduction. On the aims of linguisticsSydney M. Lamb | p. 1
- Part one
- 1. Mellow Glory: See language steadily and see it wholeWinfred P. Lehmann | p. 17
- 2. The uniqueness fallacyCharles F. Hockett | p. 35
- Part two
- 3. Liguistics in the university: The question of social accountabilityM.A.K. Halliday | p. 51
- 4. Lessons from american indian linguisticsMary R. Haas | p. 68
- Part three
- 5. Reshaping linguistics: context and contentRobert E. Longacre | p. 79
- 6. The many linguistic functions of durationIlse Lehiste | p. 96
- 7. Lexical semantics and text semanticsCharles J. Fillmore | p. 123
- Part four
- 8. Linguistics, poetics, and the literary genresEdward Stankiewicz | p. 155
- 9. Subjects + Objects: The current state of visual semioticsDonald Preziosi | p. 179
- Part five
- 10. SymptomThomas A. Sebeok | p. 211
- 11. Semiotics laws in linguistics and natural scienceSebastian Shaumyan | p. 231
- Notes on contributors | pp. 259–264
- Index | pp. 265–269
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