Language, Communication, and Social Meaning :   Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1992 / 
edited by James E. Alatis. 
 - Washington, DC :  Georgetown University Press,  1993. 
 - ix, 507 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) .
<br/><br/> Papers presented at the Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1992. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Welcoming remarks /  James E. Alatis Presentation of the Dean's Medal to Kenneth L. Pike /  James E. Alatis M. A. K. Halliday: An introduction /  James E. Alatis The act of meaning /  M. A. K. Halliday Dell Hymes: An introduction /  James E. Alatis Inequality in language: Taking for granted /  Dell Hymes Language transfer and levels of meaning potential in Malaysian English /  Peter H. Lowenberg Meaning, means, and maintenance /  Kamal K. Sridhar Contested conventions in writing about the law /  Courtney B. Cazden Register or relevance? : Seventh graders write arguments for a mock trial /  Judith Diamondstone Contexts for meaning /  Ruqaiya Hasan Language, communication, social meaning, and social change: The challenge for teachers /  Sandra J. Savignon Social meaning IN language curriculum, OF language curriculum, and THROUGH language curriculum /  James Dean Brown How to ask: Question formation in written representations of spoken French /  John Moran Content language learning: Symbiosis in the academe /  Diane Musumeci A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part I: Theoretical and methodological considerations /  Diane Larsen-Freeman A nonhierarchical relationship between grammar and communication Part II: Insights from discourse analysis /  Marianne Celce-Murcia Proficiency and accuracy: Enemies or allies? /  Rebecca M. Valette Internationalization of the university: Where are the foreign languages? /  Wilga M. Rivers English in Europe: Language pragmatics or language policy /  Margie Berns French immersion graduates at university and beyond: What difference has it made? /  Marjorie Bingham Wesche EAP oral communication curriculum: Spoken discourse, meaning, and communicative 'pronunciation' /  Joan Morley Teaching language and culture: A view from the schools /  Myriam Met Principles and parameters in language and society /  Charles Ferguson Ethnolinguistic democracy: Varieties, degrees, and limits /  Joshua A. Fishman A brief update on my interest in relating language to philosophy /   Kenneth L. Pike  Communication, community, and the problem of appropriate use /   H. G. Widdowson Discourse community and the evaluation of written text /  John M. Swales Second culture acquisition: A tentative step in determining hierarchies /  Nadine O'Connor Di Vito Information flow in written advertising /  Peter H. Fries When and how old age is relevant in discourse of the elderly: A case study of Georgia O'Keeffe /  Elif Tolga Rosenfeld Social meaning and creativity in Indian English speech acts /   Yamuna Kachru  Formulaic opposition markers in Chinese conflict talk /  Sai-hua Kuo Sociocultural parameters of intelligibility /  Cecil L. Nelson Some new evidence for an old hypothesis /  Stephen Krashen Social meanings for how we teach /  Earl W. Stevick Communication with second language learners: What does it reveal about the social and linguistic processes of second language learning? /  Teresa Pica Dialogic emergence of culture in the language classroom /   Claire Kramsch  Metaphorical competence in second language acquisition and second language teaching: The neglected dimension /  Marcel Danesi Perspectives on communicative language teaching: Syllabus design and methodology /  H. G. Widdowson 
<br/><br/> "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." (Back Cover) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>087840127X (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>0186-7207 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Language and languages--Congresses.<br/>Communication--Social aspects--Congresses.<br/>Meaning (Psychology)--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P53  / .G423 1992