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In:Thirty Years of Linguistic Evolution: Studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his 60th birthday
Edited by Martin Pütz
[Not in series 61] 1992
► pp. xiii–xviii

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Published online: 2 September 1992
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Table of contents

Prefacexix
Acknowledgementsxxi
René Dirven: A Biographical Sketchxxiii
René Dirven: A Bibliographyxxxi
Introductionxxxix
Section I. General Linguistics
On the nature, use and acquisition of language3
The concept of communicative competence revisited31
New ways of analysing meaning: The challenge to applied linguistics59
The creole key to the black box of language97
Twenty years after: A review of Peter Mühlhäusler’s pidginization and simplification of language109
The changing English language — fiction and fact119
Section II. Applied Linguistics
‘Very like a whale’: Shifting paradigms in Applied Linguistics133
Section III. Grammar and Discourse Analysis
Between grammar and discourse149
Linguistics and grammatics161
Institutional linguistics: Language and institutions, linguistics and sociology189
Section IV. Semantics
The search for universal semantic primitives215
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A theory of vocabulary structure: Retrospectives and prospectives243
The return of hermeneutics to lexical semantics257
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Section V. Morphology
The formats change — the problems remain: Word-formation theory between 1960 and 1990285
Section VI. Historical Linguistics
The return of philology to linguistics313
Section VII. Functionalism in Linguistics
The why’s and the how’s in my research into functional sentence perspective335
Section VIII. Sociolinguistics and Languages in Contact
Norwich revisited: Recent changes in an English urban dialect361
Multilingualism and contact linguistics379
Multilingualism research in Australia: Tyranny of distance and challenges of a new society399
Codeswitching as socially motivated performance meets structurally motivated constraints417
Language attitudes in South Africa: Implications for a post-apartheid democracy429
Section IX. Cognitive Linguistics
Metaphors and war: The metaphor system used to justify was in the gulf463
The symbolic nature of cognitive grammar: The meaning of of and of of-periphrasis483
Diachrony within synchrony: The challenge of cognitive grammar503
The cognitive approach to natural language513
Section X. Cognitive Psychology
The takeover of psychology by biology or the devaluation of reference in psychology545
Section XI. Philosophical Linguistics
Linguistic theory and epistemology of linguistics573
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Section XII. Linguistics and Anthropology
Linguistics and anthropology593
Section XIII. Computational Linguistics
Where am I coming from: The reversibility of analysis and generation in natural language processing613
Index625
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