Lectures on Language Performance by Ce Osgood

Lectures on Language Performance by Ce Osgood

Titling this book Lectures on Language Performance was not done to be cleverly eye-catching-the title is quite literally appropriate. With minor adaptations for a general reading audience, the eight chapters in this volume are the actual lectures I gave as the Linguistic Society of America Professor for its Summer Institute held at the University of Illinois in 1978. The eight lectures are an anticipation of my magnum opus-I guess when one has passed into his sixties he can be forgiven for saying this - a much larger volume (or volumes) to be titled Toward an Abstract Performance Grammar. The book in your hands is an anticipation of this work in at least three senses: for one thing, it doesn't pretend to cover the burgeoning literature relevant to the comparatively new field of psycholinguistics (my study at home is literally overflowing with reference materials, aU coded for various sections of the planned vol- ume(s ; for another, both the style and the content of these Lectures were tailored to a very broad social science audience -including students and teachers in anthropology, linguistics, philosophy and psychology (as well as in various applied fields like second language learning and bilingualism); and for yet another thing, many sections of the planned magnum opus are hardly even touched on here-for example, these lectures do not anticipate major sections to be devoted to Efficiency vs.

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ISBN 13	9783642872914
ISBN 10	3642872913
Title	Lectures on Language Performance
Author	Ce Osgood
Series	Springer Series In Language And Communication
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer
Year published	2012-04-09
Number of pages	276
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