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In:New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics
Edited by James E. Copeland
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 32] 1984
► pp. v–vi

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Published online: 1 January 1984
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Table of contents

Preface. Linguistics at Rice University: The first two decadesvii
Introduction. On the aims of linguistics1
Part one13
1. Mellow Glory: See language steadily and see it whole17
2. The uniqueness fallacy35
Part two47
3. Liguistics in the university: The question of social accountability51
4. Lessons from american indian linguistics68
Part three73
5. Reshaping linguistics: context and content79
6. The many linguistic functions of duration96
7. Lexical semantics and text semantics123
Part four149
8. Linguistics, poetics, and the literary genres155
9. Subjects + Objects: The current state of visual semiotics179
Part five207
10. Symptom211
11. Semiotics laws in linguistics and natural science231
Notes on contributors259
Index265
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