Issues 1980-1985

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Volume 9, Number 1, 1980

Contributors:

Jenny Cheshire 'Syntactic and semantic constraints on ain't'
A.G.H. Walker 'North Frisia and linguistics'
Ronald Chan 'The non-uniqueness of stylistic descriptions'
Anita Pincas 'Teaching linguistics: the problem of terminology'
Christopher J. Pountain 'Theoretical linguistics and the teaching of Spanish'
Gill Alexander 'Review of Casey Miller & Kate Swift, Words and Women'
Euan Reid 'Reviews of A.J. Aitken & Tom McArthur, (eds), Languages of Scotland and V.K. Edwards, The West Indian Issue in British Schools'
Michael Stubbs 'Review of J.D. McClure, A.J. Aitken & J.T. Low, The Scots Language'

Contributors:

Katie Wales '"Personal" and "indefinite" reference: the users of the pronoun ONE in present-day English'
Siew-Yue Killingley 'Syntactical and semantic considerations in the Cantonese classifier'
Michael Stubbs & Margaret Berry 'The Duke of Wellington's gambit: notes on the English verbal group
Kevin Durkin 'A note on the meaning and use of English proximity prepositions'
Ronald Carter 'Reviews of V.J. Cook, Young Children and Language and Alan Cruttenden, Language in Infancy and Childhood'

Contributors:

Mava Jo Powell 'The notion of literal meaning in Speech Act Theory'
Robyn Carston 'Irony and parody and the use-mention distinction'
Margaret Berry 'Polarity, ellipticity and propositional development, their relevance to the well-formedness of an exchange (a discussion of Coulthard and Brazil's classes of Move)'
Walter Nash 'Openings and Preconditions: A note on narrative'
Jeffrey Wilkinson 'Children's Writing: Composing or Decomposing?'

Contributors:

Sandra Harris 'The function of directives in court discourse'
Richard Hudson 'Wanna and the lexicon'
John M. Kirk 'On Scottish non-standard English'
Steve Lander 'Creole and non-Creole influence on the English of the British-born children of the Carribean immigrants'
Anthony J. Tinkel 'Language study in the Sixth Form'
Siew-Yue Killingley 'A note on certain difficulties in using GALD'
Michael Stubbs 'Review of Hartmann, (ed), Dictionaries and their Users'

Contributors:

Graeme Ritchie 'Computational approaches to language'
Siew-Yue Killingley 'Classifier, noun and verb in the expression of spatiotemporal relationships in Cantonese'
Alan Davies 'Spaces between silences: verbal interaction in Quaker meetings'
Margaret Berry 'Review of Halliday, M.A.K., Language as Social Semiotic'

Contributors:

Penny Willis and Lesley Jeffries 'Participant (case) roles and lexical analysis'
Jane Roberts 'The English historical thesaurus'
Paul Meara 'Word associations in a foreign language'
Ronald Carter 'A note on core vocabulary'
A.P. Cowie 'Polysemy and the structure of lexical fields'
D.A. Cruse 'On lexical ambiguity'
R.R.K. Hartman 'Lexicography: an annotated minimum bibliography'

Contributors:

Phil Champ 'The evaporation of liquids in Cockney'
Una Cunningham 'Aspects of the intonation of Spanish'
Martin Nystrand 'The role of context in written communication'
David Pimm 'Similarities and differences between mathematical and linguistic transformations'
M. Stubbs 'Review of R. Lesser & P. Trewitt, An Annotated Bibliography of Verbal Materials'
M. Stubbs 'Review of Peter Trudgill & Jean Hannah, International English'

Contributors:

Christopher Brumfit 'Some problems with Krashen's concept's "acquisition" and "learning"'
Annick de Houwer 'Some aspects of the simultaneous acquisition of Dutch and English by a three-year-old child'
A.A. Lyne 'Word-frequency counts: their particular relevance to the description of languages for special purposes and a technique for enhancing their usefulness'
Inge C. Schwerdtfeger 'Foreigner-talk: implications for foreign language teaching?'
W. Grauberg 'Review of H.H. Stern, Fundamental Concepts in Language Teaching'
M. McTear 'Review of D. Crystal, Profiling Linguistic Disability'
W. Grauberg 'Review of CILT, (Eds), Communications Skills in Modern Languages at School and in Higher Education'

Contributors:

Cate Poynton 'Forms and functions: Names as vocatives'
J.R. Martin 'Functional components in grammar: A review of deployable recognition criteria'
Ruqaiya Hasan 'The nursery tale as a genre'
Eija Ventola 'The dynamics of genre'
David Butt 'Perceiving as making in the poetry of Wallace Stevens'
Jean Jaques Weber 'Deontic, axiological and epistemic distance in Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul'
Sandra A. Thompson 'Grammar and written discourse: Initial vs. final purpose clauses in English'

Contributors:

Joanna Channell 'Vagueness as a conversational strategy'
Susan Hunston 'Text in World and World in Text: goals and models of scientific writing'
Michael Lumsden 'The definiteness effect and predication'
Rukmini Bhaya Nair 'Telling lies: some literary and other violations of Grice's maxim of quality'
Marion Owen 'The conversational functions of anyway'
Caroline Stainton 'Review of Oreström B. (1983), Turn-taking in English Conversation'

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