YPL1 - Issue 9

Issue 9 (December 1980)

Aspects of linguistic behaviour: Festschrift R.B. Le Page

Editor: M.W.S. De Silva

Introduction

7–8

M.W.S. De Silva

Projection, focussing, diffusion

9–31

Robert B. Le Page

R.B. Le Page: A biographer's unofficial account

33–34

Principal publications of Robert Le Page

35–37

What happens when we switch?

41–56

Derek Bickerton

Why are signed languages easier to learn than spoken languages?

57–80

Roger Brown

Phonosymbolism — Some notes

81–86

Fred G. Cassidy

Language identity, language functions and social status

87–97

Hans Raj Dua

New worlds to conquer in the sociology of language

99–104

Joshua A. Fishman

Accommodation theory: Some new directions

105–136

Howard Giles

Language, social knowledge and interpersonal relations

137–150

John J. Gumperz

Comparing languages in contact

151–171

William F. Mackey

Romance history – Creolization and decreolization? Or diffusion and focussing?

173–192

Rebecca Posner

On the interpretation of the complement noun phrases of illocutionary/perlocutionary and transitive verb-of-motion predicates

193–203

David A. Reibel

Networks and sociolinguistic variation in an African urban setting

205–222

Joan Russell

Code-switching in Lady Chatterley's Lover

223–240

Roger W. Shuy

'They don't fool around with the creole much, as with the Spanish': A family case in San Ignacio, Cayo district (Belize)

241–259

Andrée Tabouret-Keller

Acts of conflicting identity: A sociolinguistic look at British pop songs

261–277

Peter Trudgill