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Publication details [#25077]

Janicki, Karol. 1990. Toward non-essentialist sociolinguistics. De Gruyter Mouton. 136 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognition | philosophy | sociolinguistics

Annotation

This book proposes a reorientation of sociolinguistics, grounded on the assumption that language plays a greater role in cognition than acknowledged by essentialist philosophers, and on the assumption that instead of searching precise, truth-functional definitions, one has to take into account a set of less bounded categories.

Reviewed by

Parmentier, Richard J. 1991. Review of K.Janicki (1990: 'Toward non-essentialist sociolinguistics').