New Directions in Linguistics and Semiotics

Editor

James E. Copeland

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This volume derives from a symposium held in March 1982, to celebrate the inauguration of the Department of Linguistics at Rice University. The focus of the symposium was the state of linguistics and semiotics in its recent past, the current status, and directions to be explored in the immediate future.

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 32] 1984. xi, 269 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.32

Table of Contents

Preface. Linguistics at Rice University: The first two decades James E. Copeland	vii
Introduction. On the aims of linguistics Sydney M. Lamb	1
Part one	13
1. Mellow Glory: See language steadily and see it whole Winfred P. Lehmann	17
2. The uniqueness fallacy Charles F. Hockett	35
Part two	47
3. Liguistics in the university: The question of social accountability M.A.K. Halliday †	51
4. Lessons from american indian linguistics Mary R. Haas	68
Part three	73
5. Reshaping linguistics: context and content Robert E. Longacre	79
6. The many linguistic functions of duration Ilse Lehiste	96
7. Lexical semantics and text semantics Charles J. Fillmore †	123
Part four	149
8. Linguistics, poetics, and the literary genres Edward Stankiewicz	155
9. Subjects + Objects: The current state of visual semiotics Donald Preziosi	179
Part five	207
10. Symptom Thomas A. Sebeok	211
11. Semiotics laws in linguistics and natural science Sebastian Shaumyan	231
Notes on contributors	259
Index	265

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Cited by 2 other publications

STEYN, JACQUES

1986. Quo vadis linguistics -- is there a future?* jacques steyn. South African Journal of Linguistics 4:1 ► pp. 56 ff.

Tucker, G. Richard

1984. Introductory Remarks. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 5 ► pp. 1 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General