Research Catalog

Title

Language in public life / Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics, 1979 ; James E. Alatis, G. Richard Tucker, editors.

Author

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (30th : 1979)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [1979], ©1979.

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Additional Authors

• Alatis, James E.
• Tucker, G. Richard.

Description

xviii, 310 pages : portrait; 22 cm

Series Statement

Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics ; 1979.

Subject

• Language planning > Congresses
• Applied linguistics > Congresses
• Taalwetenschap
• Aménagement linguistique > Congrès
• Linguistique appliquée > Congrès

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Language in public life -- A progress report on the President's Commission on Foreign Languages and international studies / Timothy S. Healy -- U.S. international English language policy / Melvin J. Fox -- Language spread and language policy -- Language planning, language spread, and language change / Robert L. Cooper -- National attitudes toward language planning / Charles A. Ferguson -- Language policy and the delivery of social services in Canada and the United States / Tracy C. Gray and G. Richard Tucker -- The evolving language policy in Greece : An introductory note / James E. Alatis -- The evolution of the Greek language and its present form / Alexandros S. Karanikolas -- Language choice and human rights in the United States / Reynaldo F. Macias -- Language and the professions I -- The context of professional languages : An historical overview / Shirley Brice Heath -- Communication between doctor and patient : What compliance research shows / Bernard Barber -- Language policy in medicine : Some emerging issues / Roger W. Shuy -- Language play in advertising : Linguistic invention in product naming / Don L.F. Nilsen -- Language in education : Variation in the teacher-talk register / Courtney B. Cazden -- Characteristics of the language of jury instructions / Veda R. Charrow and Robert P. Charrow -- Interpreting for language minorities in the courts / Alicia Pousada -- Language and the professions II -- Language and the neurosciences / Victoria A. Fromkin -- Language and the deaf experience / William C. Stokoe -- Evaluationg language assessment procedures : An examination of linguistic guidelines and Public Law 94-142 guidelines / Anna Fay Vaughn-Cooke -- Language of public persuasion -- Metaphorical aggression : Bluenoses and coffin nails / Dwight Bolinger -- Language and advertising / William M. O'Barr -- Linguistic innovation in the Arabic adaptation of Sesame Street / Edward L. Palmer -- Looting and lightning : The languages of persuasion on newspaper editorial pages / Jack Rosenthal.

ISBN

• 0878401148
• 9780878401147

LCCN

80110517

OCLC

• ocm06330781
• 6330781
• SCSB-5327478

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Columbia University Libraries