Preface; Introduction; PART I: ORIENTATION TO HARD-SCIENCE LINGUISTICS; 1 The Depth Hypothesis and the New Hard-Science Linguistics; 2 Issues in Hard-Science Linguistics; 3 An Introduction to Hard-Science Linguistics; 4 Rules of Order; PART II: RECONSTITUTING PHONETICS-PHONOLOGY; 5 Towards a Physical Definition of the Vowel Systems of Languages; 6 Articulatory Events are Given in Advance; 7 An Outline of Hard-Science Phonetics-Phonology; PART III: IN SEARCH OF CONTEXT; 8 Reconstituting Notions of Reference; 9 Reconstituting Austin''s Verdictives.
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10 Analysis of a Business Negotiation11 Lottery Betting; PART IV: VARIATIONAL AND HISTORICAL LINGUSTICS; 12 Moving a Classic Applied Linguistics Study into the Real World; 13 Describing Frisian Communities in Terms of Human Linguistics; 14 Mayday or m''aider. A Call for Help in Understanding Linguistic Change; 15 Linguistic Change as Changes in Linkages: Fifteenth-Century English; PART V: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES; 16 The Victorian Stereotype of an Irishman; 17 Needs as Expressed in Educational Discourse on the Basis of Textbooks in Linguistics; PART VI: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS.
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18 The Question of Translation19 Communicating Scientific Experiments in Journal Articles; PART VII: DISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATIONS; 20 The Riches of the New World; 21 Coping with Cultural Differences; 22 The Conduct of Hard-Science Research; 23 To be a Scientist; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
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The impossibility of testing the depth hypothesis of 1960 of a connection between the complexities of grammar and a limited human temporary memory led to questioning the ancient grammatical foundations of linguistics and to developing standard hard-science foundations. This volume is the first detailed report on how to reconstitute linguistics on the new hard-science foundation laid by Victor H. Yngve in 1996. Hard-science (human) linguistics is the scientific study of how people communicate. It studies people and also communicative energy flow and other relevant parts of the physical environ.