By Kirsten Malmkjaer
This completely revised and up to date quantity deals accomplished assurance of the main and subsiduary fields of linguistic research.
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This was the book that taught linguistics to America. It marked a crucial watershed: before Language, linguistics might have been absorbed into traditional academia once the Amerindian project was completed; after it, however, this could not have happened. The subject had earned and deserved its autonomy. Language is no descriptivist manual (Bloomfield wrote one later (see Bloomfield 1942)). It is a hugely well-informed and detailed account of the whole field of linguistics, traditional and modern, but it is better known now for what its later opponents have criticized rather than for what it set out to do in its own day.
Malinowski’s work in the Trobriand Islands led him to develop a functional repertoire of text types, with special reference to spoken language in pre-literate societies (Malinowski 1923). His principal theoretical contribution to the subject was a notion that became closely associated with London linguistics: the context of situation, without knowledge of which he argued no coherent account of the meaning of spoken utterances was possible. e. the context of situation imposed a meaning on the text that in isolation it did not possess.
Formant) of the vowel to be x, and the resonance frequency of the plosive to be y, then the closing and opening of the lips can be seen to be, acoustically speaking, a transition Figure 12 A schematic diagram of the closing of lips in [apa], its progression slowed down in ten steps from x to y and then from y to x.
