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The academic discipline of linguistics is at a critical stage of development. Whatever consensus there may have been fifteen or even ten years ago is fast disappearing. A process of redefinition is underway, and it is the aim of this volume to contribute to that process, explain... Read Full Overview

Designed for students and lecturers in linguistics, this volume contains a number of essays on topics of current interest, including normativity and linguistic form, the emergence of the category proper name in discourse and the locus of language in a redefined linguistics.

The academic discipline of linguistics is at a critical stage of development. Whatever consensus there may have been fifteen or even ten years ago is fast disappearing. A process of redefinition is underway, and it is the aim of this volume to contribute to that process, explain... Read Full Overview