Linguistics as a Science / Victor H. Yngve.
This pathbreaking work lays a new foundation for linguistics: It focuses on people rather than on language and is governed by science rather than grammar or philosophy. A linguistics built on this foundation avoids many intellectual problems, it can confront the full observational details of how peo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1986. ©1986. |
| Year of Publication: | 1986 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource viii, 120 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Questions and clues
- Language and linguistics
- Analysis : the domain of language
- Analysis : the domain of people
- Implications
- A scientific foundation for linguistics
- Laws of communicative behavior
- The linguistic structure of properties of people
- The linguistic structure of communities
- Tests of theory against observation.