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Zusatztext "...for an approach that touts the scientific, there is a disappointing lack of hard data and physically testable predictions." - Barbara Abbott, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, September 2008 Informationen zum Autor Victor H. Yngve is Professor Emeritus in Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Chicago. Zdzislaw Wasik is Professor in the School of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland. Klappentext The impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human temporary memory led to questioning the ancient grammatical foundations of linguistics and to developing standard hard-science foundations. This volume is the first detailed report on how to reconstitute linguistics on the new hard-science foundation laid by Victor H. Yngve in 1996. Zusammenfassung A number of pioneering linguists have returned from an expedition to the world of the hard sciences. They have surveyed opportunities there for building a new scientific human linguistics. This book offers a detailed report of their ideas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction (Victor H. Yngve) Part I: Orientation to Hard-Science Linguistics 1. The Depth Hypothesis and the New hard-Science Linguistics (Victor H. Yngve) 2. Issues in Hard-Science Linguistics (Victor H. Yngve) 3. An Introduction to Hard-Science Linguistics (Victor H. Yngve) 4. Rules of Order (Victor H. Yngve) Part II: Reconstituting Phonetics-Phonology 5. Towards a Physical Definition of the Vowel Systems of Languages (Laura L. Koenig, Long Island University and Haskins Laboratories) 6. Articulatory Events are Given in Advance (Douglas N. Honorof, Haskins Laboratories) 7. An Outline of Hard-Science Phonetics-Phonology (Victor H. Yngve) Part III: In Search of Context 8. Reconstituting Notions of Reference (Lara Burazer, University of Ljubljana) 9. Reconstituting Austin's Verdictives (Bernard Paul Sypniewski, Rowan University, New Jersey) 10. Analysis of a Business Negotiation (Mojca Schlamberger Brezar, University of Ljubljana) 11. Lottery Betting (Bernard Paul Sypniewski) Part IV: Variational and Historical Linguistics 12. Moving a Classic Applied Linguisticsd Study into the Real World (Douglas W. Coleman, University of Toledo) 13. Describing Frisian Communities in Terms of Human Linguistics (Elzbieta Wasik, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland) 14. Mayday or M'aider: A Call for Help in Understanding Linguistic Change (Janusz Malak, Opole University, Poland) 15. Linguistic Change as Changes in Linkages: Fifteenth-Century English (Carl Mills, University of Cincinnati)Part V: Social and Psychological Issues 16. The Victorian Stereotype of an Irishman (Anna Cislo, University of Wroclaw, Poland) 17. Needs as Expressed in Educational Discourse on the Basis of Textbooks in Linguistics (Piotr Czajka, University of Wroclaw, Poland) Part VI: Practical Applications 18. The Question of Translation (Martina Ozbot, University of Ljubljana) 19. Communicating Scientific Experiments in Journal Articles (W. John Hutchins, retired from University of East Anglia) Part VII: Disciplinary Considerations 20. The Riches of the New World (Victor H. Yngve and Zdzislaw Wasik) 21. Coping with Cultural Differences (Victor H. Yngve and Zdzislaw Wasik) 22. The Conduct of Hard-Science Research (Victor H. Yngve) 23. To be a Scientist (Victor H. Yngve)...
