1st Edition
Dilemmas of Discourse Controversies about the Sociological Interpretation of Language
By Anthony Wootton
Copyright 1975
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1975, Dilemmas of Discourse brings together strands of arguments from disciplines like sociology, anthropology, linguistics and philosophy to explore the debate around the issue of deciding the meaning of what people may say. Can the meaning of words be described satisfactorily as a bundle of semantic features? Can speech acts such as promising and insulting be described as... Read more
Preface 1. Language, Concepts and Descriptions 2. Components of Meaning 3. Rules, Norms and Speech Acts 4. Ethnomethodology 5. Language and Social Class: Vocabularies of Motive 6. Sociology, Language and Description Notes Bibliography Index
Biography
Anthony Wootton (at the time of the first publication of the book) was Lecturer in Sociology, University of York.
