5. Reshaping linguistics: context and content

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface. Linguistics at Rice University: The first two decades vii
4. Introduction. On the aims of linguistics 1
5. Part one
6. 1. Mellow Glory: See language steadily and see it whole 17
7. 2. The uniqueness fallacy 35
8. Part two
9. 3. Liguistics in the university: The question of social accountability 51
10. 4. Lessons from american indian linguistics 68
11. Part three
12. 5. Reshaping linguistics: context and content 79
13. 6. The many linguistic functions of duration 96
14. 7. Lexical semantics and text semantics 123
15. Part four
16. 8. Linguistics, poetics, and the literary genres 155
17. 9. Subjects + Objects: The current state of visual semiotics 179
18. Part five
19. 10. Symptom 211
20. 11. Semiotics laws in linguistics and natural science 231
21. Notes on contributors 259
22. Index 265