The written language bias in linguistics : its nature, origins and transformations / Per Linell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Part Part I Preliminaries -- chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 From aspects of communicative action to sets of abstract forms -- chapter 3 Speech and writing, spoken and written language -- chapter 4 The written language bias in linguistics and language sciences -- part Part II The phenomenon and its extension -- chapter 5 The written language bias in 101 points -- part Part III Discussion -- chapter 6 The transf ormations of some written-language-based themes -- chapter 7 Critique of 'the written language bias' argument -- chapter 8 People's languages and linguists' grammars -- chapter 9 The written language bias--past, present, future.

"The author substantiates claims about the 'written language bias' using arguments and points from the theory and philosophy of language, phonology, grammar, lexicology, semantics, pragmatics, theory of text and discourse. Special attention is given to the notion of the single, unitary language, the distinction between language and speech, the view on language as a set of abstract objects and rules, the sentence as the fundamental unit of language, among other themes. Although the book focuses on mainstream linguistics, it also sketches an alternative theory of language which describes language use and talk-in-interaction in dialogical terms and as embodied, social action distributed in time."--Jacket.

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