Linguistics in Context--Connecting Observation and Understanding [Hardcover]

The range of topics addressed in this collection can be seen in the titles of the four sections into which the chapters are grouped: Humanistic Approaches to Linguistic Analysis; The Nature and Uses of Language and Linguistic Theory; Poetry: Linguistic Analysis and Language Teaching; and Language Learning and Teaching. Among the contributors are A. L. Becker, Paul Friedrich, Paul Hopper, William Labov, Kenneth Pike, Harold Rosen, Emanuel Schegloff, Muriel Saville-Troike, H. G. Widdowson, and Deborah Tannen.

NEH LECTURES: HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
Language in Particular: A Lecture. Inarticulateness
The Autobiographical Impulse
Hearing Voices in Conversation, Fiction, and Mixed Genres
THE NATURE AND USE OF LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTIC THEORY
Emergent Grammar and the A Prior: Grammar Postulate
Discourse as an Interactional Achievement II: An Exercise in Conversation Analysis
The Judicial Testing of Linguistic Theory
POETRY: LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS AND LANGUAGE TEACHING
Poetry and Pedagogy
The Unheralded Revolution in the Sonnet: Toward a Generative Model
Bridging Language Learning, Language Analysis, and Poetry via Experimental Syntax
LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING
From Context to Communication: Paths to Second Language Acquisition
Do We Learn to Read by Reading?
The Relationship Between Free Reading and Reading Ability
Language Learning and Language Teaching: Towards an Integrated Model
Author Index
Subject Index