Acceptability in Language

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Acceptability in Language

Edited by: Sidney Greenbaum

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1977

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Volume 17 | Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL]

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Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines General Linguistics
Linguistics and Semiotics Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines Sociolinguistics

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Frontmatter
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Preface
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Contents
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1. Introduction
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Sidney Greenbaum
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2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria
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Adebisi Afolayan
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3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles
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Derek Bickerton
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4. Acceptability in Context
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Teun A. van Dijk
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5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability
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Robert D. Eagleson
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6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language
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Robin Lakoff
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7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery
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W. J. M. Levelt, J. A. W. M. van Gent, A. F. J. Haans and A. J. A. Meijers
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8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina
103
Raven I. McDavid and Raymond K. O’Cain
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9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar
133
Β. Α. Mohan
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10. Acceptability in a Revived Language
149
Chaim Rabin
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11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions
163
Catherine Snow and Guus Meijer
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12. The Use of ought in Teenage English
179
Jan Svartvik and David Wright
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13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context
203
Gunnel Tottie

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December 1, 1977

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Acceptability (Linguistics); Grammaticality (Linguistics); Language and languages -- Variation

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Acceptability in Language

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Acceptability of English as a Second Language in Nigeria

3. Some Problems of Acceptability and Grammaticality in Pidgins and Creoles

4. Acceptability in Context

5. Sociolinguistic Reflections on Acceptability

6. You say what you are: Acceptability and Gender-related Language

7. Grammaticality, Paraphrase and Imagery

8. Prejudice and Pride: Linguistic Acceptability in South Carolina

9. Acceptability Testing and Fuzzy Grammar

10. Acceptability in a Revived Language

11. On the Secondary Nature of Syntactic Intuitions

12. The Use of ought in Teenage English

13. Variation, Acceptability and the Advanced Foreign Learner: Towards a Sociolinguistics without a Social Context

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