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Title Developments in linguistics and semiotics, language teaching and learning, ...
communication across cultures
Author(s) Battestini, Simon P. X., ed.
Local Call Num. P 53 .G39 1986
ISBN 978-0-87840-121-5
0-87840-121-0
Status Archived (Parka
Series Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) series.
Pages xvi, 267 p.
Publishing Info Washington, DC Georgetown University Press. 1987
Loan Type/Days REG-Regular / This item may circulate for 21 Days
Department MIS-Miscellaneous
Media BK-Book
Volume/Issue 1986
Subjects Linguistics--Congresses.
Semiotics--Congresses.
Intercultural communication--Congresses.
Language and languages--Study and teaching--Congresses.
 
Description Full title: Developments in linguistics and semiotics, language teaching and learning, communication across cultures.
ill.; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Linguistics and semiotics / Thomas Sebeok -- What has discourse linguistics done to stylistics? / Nils Erik Enkvist -- Varieties of English in multilingual setting in Nigeria / Ayo Banjo -- Linguistics, semiotics, and the human information system / Sydney Lamb -- Developments in the study of West African languages / Herrmann Jungraithmayr -- Aspects of complementizer development in Creole relativization / John P. Hutchison -- Issues in oral poetry criticism, teaching, and translation / Olabiyi Yai -- Speech and writing / Florian Coulmas -- The influence of linguistic theory on language acquisition research / Patsy M. Lightbown.
(con't) Language variability and language teaching / Albert Valdman -- New linguistic approaches to a theory of writing / Nina Catach --Teacher-training in French as a foreign language / Simonne Lieutaud -- Studying abroad and foreign languages / Barbara B. Burn -- Communicating the scriptures across cultures / Philip A. Noss -- Are there cultures to communicate across? / Lee Drummond -- Educational software makers in France / Corinne Hermant --Reflections by the computer / Winfred P. Lehmann -- Semiotics as theory or theory as a semiotic of practice? / Michael Herzfeld -- Signs and signatures in African literature / Aliko Songolo.