Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and Discourse (Oxford Linguistics)

Miller, Jim Jim Miller,

ISBN 10: 0199561257 / ISBN 13: 9780199561254

Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2009

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Synopsis:

Jim Miller and Regina Weinert investigate syntactic structure and the organization of discourse in spontaneous spoken language. Using data from English, German, and Russian, they develop a systematic analysis of spoken English and highlight properties that hold across languages. The authors argue that the differences in syntax and the construction of discourse between spontaneous speech and written language bear on various areas of linguistic theory, apart from having obvious implications for syntactic analysis. In particular, they bear on typology, Chomskyan theories of first language acquisition, and the perennial problem of language in education. In current typological practice written and spontaneous spoken texts are often compared; the authors show convincingly that typological research should compare like with like. The consequences for Chomskyan, and indeed all, theories of first language acquisition flow from the central fact that children first learn spoken language before they are taught written language.

About the Author: Jim Miller is Professor Emeritus, and Honorary Fellow in Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh

Regina Weinert is a Reader in Germanic Linguistics, the University of Sheffield

Bibliographic Details

Title: Spontaneous Spoken Language: Syntax and ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good