Hard-science linguistics / edited by Victor H. Yngve and Zdzisław Wąsik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yngve, Victor H., 1920-2012.

Wąsik, Zdzisław.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Methodology.

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2004.

Summary:

The impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human temporary memory led to questioning the ancient grammatical foundations of linguistics and to developing standard hard-science foundations. This volume is the first detailed report on how to reconstitute linguistics on the new hard-science foundation laid by Victor H. Yngve in 1996.

Contents:

Part I Orientation to Hard-Science Linguistics

1 The Depth Hypothesis and the New Hard-Science Linguistics / Victor H. Yngve 3

2 Issues in Hard-Science Linguistics / Victor H. Yngve 14

3 An Introduction to Hard-Science Linguistics / Victor H. Yngve 27

4 Rules of Order / Victor H. Yngve 35

Part II Reconstituting Phonetics-Phonology

5 Towards a Physical Definition of the Vowel Systems of Languages / Laura L. Koenig 49

6 Articulatory Events are Given in Advance / Douglas N. Honorof 67

7 An Outline of Hard-Science Phonetics-Phonology / Victor H. Yngve 87

Part III In Search of Context

8 Reconstituting Notions of Reference / Lara Burazer 115

9 Reconstituting Austin's Verdictives / Bernard Paul Sypniewski 129

10 Analysis of a Business Negotiation / Mojca Schlamberger Brezar 142

11 Lottery Betting / Bernard Paul Sypniewski 174

Part IV Variational and Historical Lingustics

12 Moving a Classic Applied Linguistics Study into the Real World / Douglas W. Coleman 191

13 Describing Frisian Communities in Terms of Human Linguistics / Elzbieta Wasik 214

14 Mayday or m'aider. A Call for Help in Understanding Linguistic Change / Janusz Malak 225

15 Linguistic Change as Changes in Linkages: Fifteenth-Century English / Carl Mills 241

Part V Social and Psychological Issues

16 The Victorian Stereotype of an Irishman / Anna Cislo 259

17 Needs as Expressed in Educational Discourse on the Basis of Textbooks in Linguistics / Piotr Czajka 269

Part VI Practical Applications

18 The Question of Translation / Martina Ozbot 291

19 Communicating Scientific Experiments in Journal Articles / W. John Hutchins 304

Part VII Disciplinary Considerations

20 The Riches of the New World / Victor H. Yngve, Zdzislaw Wasik 321

21 Coping with Cultural Differences / Victor H. Yngve, Zdzislaw Wasik 326

22 The Conduct of Hard-Science Research / Victor H. Yngve 332

23 To be a Scientist / Victor H. Yngve 342.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

082646114X

OCLC:

53132410