Thirty years of linguistic evolution : studies in honour of René Dirven on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday / edited by Martin Pütz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

THIRTY YEARS OF LINGUISTIC EVOLUTION; Title page; Copyright page; TABULA GRATULATORIA; Table of contents; Preface; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; René Dirven: A Biographical Sketch; René Dirven: ABibliography; INTRODUCTION; Notes; Section I. General Linguistics; On the nature, use and acquisition of language; The concept of communicative competence revisited; 1. Origins of the concern; 2. Coining "Communicative Competence"; 3. Kinds of competence; 4. Dimensions of objection: Scope and variation; 5. Concluding observations; Note; References; New ways of meaning: The challenge to applied linguistics; Notes.

The creolekey to the black box of languageReferences; Twenty years after: A review of Peter Mühlhäusler'spidginization and simplification of language; 0. Introduction; 1. Background; 2. What I did and did not know then; 3. What were the aims of this book?; The changing English language -fiction and fact; References; Section II. Applied Linguistics; "Verylike a whale": Shifting paradigms in Applied Linguistics; 1. Phonetics, phonology and pronunciation teaching; 2. Phonetics, phonology and "listening comprehension"; 3. Listening comprehension and discourse analysis; 4. Communicative stress.

Teaching and testing spoken production5. Listening comprehension and context; 6. Selective listening; References; Section III. Grammar and Discourse Analysis; Between grammar and discourse; References; Linguistics and grammatics; Notes; References; On composing and evaluating text; 0. Introduction; 1. Imagined Readers and Real Readers; 2. Who is averring; 3. Signalling; 4. Rhetorical structures; 5. Textual definition of words; 6. Concluding remarks; References; Institutional linguistics: Language and institutions, linguistics andsociology; 1. Introduction; 2. The object of linguistics.

3. Firth's technique of semantics4. Hill's new branch of linguistics; 5. Related themes in British linguistics; 6. Dualisms of subject and object, micro and macro; 7. Linguistic and social theory; 8. Gidden's problem: The constitution of society; 9. Three Theses; 10. Projects for an institutional linguistics; 11. Conclusion; 12. Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Section IV. Semantics; The search for universal semantic primitives; 0. Introduction; 1. The first list; 2. The identification of semantic primitives with lexical universals; 3. The expanding set.

4. Lingua mentalis and the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)5. The syntax of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage; 6. Conclusion; Notes; References; A theory of vocabulary structure: Retrospectives and prospectives; 1. Semantic fields and lexical structure; 2. Definitions; 3. Polysemy; 4. Denotation; 5. Lexical typology; 6. Syntax and semantics; 7. Lexicons and computation; 8. Conclusion; Notes; References; The return of hermeneutics to lexical semantics; 1. Hundred years of Lexical Semantics; 2. The return of hermeneutics, part I; 3. Ten years of Lexical Semantics.

4. The return of hermeneutics, part II.

For this volume, 30 well-known linguistics and researcher in related fields were invited to present an overview of their most important insights and theories as these have evolved over the past 30 years. Against the background of work done in other areas of study, the contributors reflect on the development of their ideas; the book shows what progress has been made, and how priorities have shifted these past decades. By placing current ideas in a wider historical perspective, Thirty Years of Linguistics Evolution will become a unique instrument for future generations of linguists to gain insig.

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