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On language change : the invisible hand in language

On language change : the invisible hand in language (Loan 4 times)

Material type
단행본
Personal Author
Keller, Rudi.
Title Statement
On language change : the invisible hand in language / Rudi Keller ; translated by Brigitte Nerlich.
Publication, Distribution, etc
London ;   New York :   Routledge,   1994.  
Physical Medium
xi, 182 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN
0415076714 0415076722 (pbk.)
Bibliography, Etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-177) and index.
Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
Linguistic change.
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504 ▼a Includes bibliographical references (p. [170]-177) and index.
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Contents information

Author Introduction

RUDI KELLER(지은이)

<언어변화>

Brigitte Nerlich(옮긴이)

Information Provided By: : Aladin

Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Prdface = ⅸ
PartⅠ Exposition of the problem
  1 The problem of language change = 3
    1.1 Why does language change? = 3
    1.2 Organism or mechanism? = 5
    1.3 Intentions, plans, and consciousness = 9
    1.4 Essence, change, and genesis = 13
  2 Historical reconstruction = 19
    2.1 The origin of language: a story and its interpretation = 19
    2.2 Mandeville's paradox = 30
    2.3 Conjectural History = 35
  3 In the prison of dichotomies = 39
    3.1 Nature versus art - instinct versus reason = 39
    3.2 Arguments in prison: Schleicher, M u ·· ller, Whitney = 46
    3.3 Is language made by people? = 54
PartⅡ Solution and discussion
  4 The working of the invisible hand = 61
    4.1 Language - a phenomenon of the third kind = 61
    4.2 Invisible-hand explanations = 67
    4.3 Causal, final, and functional explanations = 78
    4.4 Maxims of linguistic actions = 90
    4.5 Stasis and dynamics of language = 95
  5 Discussion
    5.1 L u ·· dtke's law of language change
    5.2 On the theory of naturalness
    5.3 Diachrony or synchrony?
    5.4 Chomsky's I-language
    5.5 Popper's World 3
  6 Conclusion
    6.1 Language change as an evolutionary process
    6.2 Resum e ´ and plea for explanatory adequacy
Notes
References
Index