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Subject: The Linguistics of Speech: Kretzschmar
 

	
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Title: The Linguistics of Speech 
Publication Year: 2009 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	
Author: William A. Kretzschmar, Jr.

Hardback: ISBN:  9780521887038 Pages: 308 Price: U.S. $ 99.00


Abstract:

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 behavior,
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 favor of language use, or reject
language use in favor 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. 



Introduction; 
1. The contemporary marketplace of ideas about language; 
2. Saussure; 
3. Evidence from linguistic survey research: basic description; 
4. Statistical evidence from linguistic survey research; 
5. Evidence from corpus linguistics; 
6. Speech as a complex system; 
7. Speech perception; 
8. Speech models and applications. 


Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Sociolinguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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