Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1992

Language, Communication, and Social Meaning

By: James E. Alatis (Editor)

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This volume, based on the forty-third annual Georgetown University Round Table, covers a variety of topics ranging from the relationship of language and philosophy; through language policy; to discourse analysis.

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Welcoming remarks	p. 1
Presentation of the Dean's Medal to Kenneth L. Pike	p. 4
M.A.K. Halliday: An introduction	p. 6
The act of meaning	p. 7
Dell Hymes: An introduction	p. 22
Inequality in language: Taking for granted	p. 23
Language transfer and levels of meaning potential in Malaysian English	p. 41
Meaning, means, and maintenance	p. 56
Contested conventions in writing about the law	p. 66
Register or relevance?: Seventh graders write arguments for a mock trial	p. 70
Contexts for meaning	p. 79
Language, communication, social meaning, and social change: The challenge for teachers	p. 104
Social meaning in language curriculum, of language curriculum, and through language curriculum	p. 117
How to ask: Question formation in written representations of spoken French	p. 135
Content language learning: Symbiosis in the academe	p. 147
A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part I: Theoretical and methodological considerations	p. 158
A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part II: Insights from discourse analysis	p. 166
Proficiency and accuracy: Enemies or allies?	p. 174
Internationalization of the university: Where are the foreign languages?	p. 179
English in Europe: Language pragmatics or language policy	p. 199
French immersion graduates at university and beyond: What difference has it made?	p. 208
EAP oral communication curriculum: Spoken discourse, meaning, and communicative 'pronunciation'	p. 241
Teaching language and culture: A view from the schools	p. 259
Principles and parameters in language and society	p. 275
Ethnolinguistic democracy: Varieties, degrees, and limits	p. 286
A brief update on my interest in relating language to philosophy	p. 298
Communication, community,and the problem of appropriate use	p. 305
Discourse community and the evaluation of written text	p. 316
Second culture acquisition: A tentative step in determining hierarchies	p. 324
Information flow in written advertising	p. 336
When and how old age is relevant in discourse of the elderly: A case study of Georgia O'Keeffe	p. 353
Social meaning and creativity in Indian English speech acts	p. 378
Formulaic opposition markers in Chinese conflict talk	p. 388
Sociocultural parameters of intelligibility	p. 403
Some new evidence for an old hypothesis	p. 413
Social meanings for how we teach	p. 428
Communication with second language learners: What does it reveal about the social and linguistic processes of second language learning?	p. 435
The dialogic emergence of culture in the language classroom	p. 465
Metaphorical competence in second language acquisition and second language teaching: The neglected dimension	p. 489
Perspectives on communicative language teaching: Syllabus design and methodology	p. 501
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