Language structure and language use
Subtitle: essays
By: by Charles A. Ferguson. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil.
Series: Language science and national development
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Language and languages
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"The eighteen articles selected for this volume cover the period from 1959 to 1970."
Table of contents: title: Diglossia.; title: Linguistic diversity in South Asia.; title: The language factor in national development.; title: Background to second language problems.; title: Problems of teaching languages with diglossia.; title: Assumptions about nasals: a sample study in phonological universals.; title: Linguistic theory and language learning.; title: Baby talk in six languages.; title: Applied linguistics.; title: On sociolinguistically oriented language surveys.; title: National sociolinguistic profile formulas.; title: Sentence deviance in linguistics and language teaching.; title: St. Stefan of Perm and applied linguistics.; title: Language development.; title: Contrastive analysis and language development.; title: Contrasting patterns of literacy acquisition in a multilingual nation.; title: Absence of copula and the notion of simplicity: a study of normal speech, baby talk, foreigner talk, and pidgins.; title: A role of Arabic in Ethiopia: a sociolinguistic perspective.; title: Bibliography of Charles A. Ferguson's works, compiled by A. S. Dil (p. [313]-327)