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1. Ideologies of Language (RLE Linguistics A)

   Edited by John E. Joseph, Talbot J. Taylor

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics

   Is the study of language ideologically neutral? If so, is this study objective and autonomous? One of the most cherished assumptions of modern academic linguistics is that the study of language is, or should be, ideologically neutral. This professed ideological neutrality goes hand-in-hand with...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Redefining Linguistics (RLE Linguistics A)

   Edited by Hayley G. Davis, Talbot J. Taylor

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics

   The academic discipline of linguistics is at a critical stage of development. Whatever consensus there may have been fifteen or even ten years ago is fast disappearing. A process of redefinition is underway, and it is the aim of this volume to contribute to that process, explain why a redefinition...

   To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Linguistics

   Edited by Hayley G. Davis, Talbot J. Taylor

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of linguistic form fail to exemplify how language users become language makers. Integrationist theory is used here as a solution to this basic problem within general...

   Published October 9th 2002 by Routledge
4. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II

   The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century

   By John E. Joseph, Nigel Love, Talbot J Taylor

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century.Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary, which places the...

   Published May 30th 2001 by Routledge