Towards a Social Science of Language
Papers in honor of William Labov
Volume 2: Social interaction and discourse structures
Editors
This is a two-volume collection of original research papers designed to reflect the breadth and depth of the impact that William Labov has had on linguistic science. Four areas of 'Labovian' linguistics are addressed: First is the study of variation and change; the papers in sections I and II of the first volume take this as their central theme, with a focus on either the social context and uses of language (I) or on the the internal linguistic dynamics of variation and change (II). The study of African American English, and other language varieties in the Americas spoken by people of African descent and influenced by their linguistic heritage, is the subject of the papers in section III of the first volume. The third theme is the study of discourse; the papers in section I of the second volume develop themes in Labovian linguistics that go back to Labov's work on narrative, descriptive, and therapeutic discourse. Fourth is the emphasis on language use, the search for discursive, interactive, and meaningful determinants of the complexity in human communication. Papers with these themes appear in section II of the second volume.
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 128] 1997. xviii, 358 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. ix
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Foreword | p. xv
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I. Social Interaction and discourse structures
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Discourse analysis, structuralism, and the description of social practiceCharlotte Linde | p. 3
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Third Turn repairEmanuel A. Schegloff | p. 31
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The transformation of experience, identity, and contextDeborah Schiffrin | p. 41
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Deliberative action constructs: Reference and evaluation in NarrativeAnne R. Bower | p. 57
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byplay: Negotiation evaluation in storytellingMarjorie H. Goodwin | p. 77
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An empirical study of textual structure: horse race callsBarbara M. Horvath | p. 103
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Discourse clues to coded language in an impeachment hearingRoger W. Shuy | p. 121
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The Incongruity of jokes, riddles and humorous situationsE. Judith Weiner | p. 139
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Discourse enumerators and Schegloff’s denominatorSylvie Dubois and David Sankoff | p. 153
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On the interactional bases of speech community membershipJohn J. Gumperz | p. 183
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II. Language in use: Syntactic and lexical variation
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On focusing sentences in brazilian PortugueseMarco Antônio de Oliviera and Maria Luiza Braga | p. 207
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On kind-sentences, resumptive pronouns, and relative clausesEllen F. Prince | p. 223
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Viewpoint, sequencing, and pronoun usage in Javanese short storiesJohn Myhill | p. 237
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Patterns of incorporation of lexemes in language contact: Language typology or sociolinguistics?Sally Boyd | p. 259
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The sociolinguistics dynamics of apparent convergenceShana Poplack | p. 285
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Varbrul and the human/inanimate polarization of the Swahili object markerBenji Wald | p. 311
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Index | p. 353
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Linguistics
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CF: Linguistics
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LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General