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Dixon, R.M.W. 1992. Naive linguistic explanation. Language in Society 21 (1) : 83–91.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

informing | language and culture | linguistic knowledge | metalanguage

Language as a subject

Languages, Amazonian | Languages, Australian aboriginal

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper presents various case studies of native speakers' attempts to explain to linguists some grammatical points in some 'lateral' way, in the absence of an appropriate metalanguage.