The linguistics of speech / William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kretzschmar, William A., Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the continuum of linguistic behaviour, extensive variation in language features, the importance of regional and social proximity to shared linguistic production, and differential frequency as a key factor in linguistic production both in regional and social groups and in text corpora. The study shows how this new linguistics of speech does not reject rules in favour of language use, or reject language use in favour of rules; rather, it shows how rules can come from language as people use it. Written in a clear, engaging style and containing invaluably accessible introductions to complex theoretical concepts, this work will be of great interest to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, dialectology and corpus linguistics.

Contents:

The contemporary marketplace of ideas about language

Saussure

Evidence from linguistic survey research: basic description

Statistical evidence from linguistic survey research

Evidence from corpus linguistics

Speech as a complex system

Speech perception

Speech models and applications.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Feb 2016).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-288) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-20080-6

9786612104060

0-511-57678-1

0-511-51583-9

0-511-51811-0

0-511-51457-3

0-511-51711-4

OCLC:

609833310