Screen LibraryThe study of speech processes : addressing the writing bias in language science /
"For many readers of the present work, the notion that language is separate from speech (or that language competence is separate from performance) will likely have been acquired in an introductory course to language study. This notion can have a major influence on how language is conceptualized...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"For many readers of the present work, the notion that language is separate from speech (or that language competence is separate from performance) will likely have been acquired in an introductory course to language study. This notion can have a major influence on how language is conceptualized, and presents a central tenet in the field. In examining introductory texts used by generations of students (e.g. the multiple editions of Akmajian, Demers, Farmer et al., 2010; Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams, 2013, and others), one finds typical arguments for distinguishing speech from language. These arguments serve to specify not only the object of study, but also how to study it. However, all these arguments, it should be pointed out once more, involve written material"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xvii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-304) and index. |
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9781107185036 1107185033 |
| Index Number: | P123 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Call Number: | H0/B753 |
| Contents: | Part I. Questions of Ontology : Writing and the Speech-Language Divide -- Part II. Questions of Epistemology : The Role of Instrumental Observations -- Part III. The Structure of Speech Acts -- Part IV. The Processing of Speech Meaning. |