Integrational Linguistics

• Part headings and selected papers:Part One: Language and CommunicationLanguage as social interaction: integrationalism versus segregationalism (R. Harris)Making sense of communicative competence (R. Harris)Part Two: Language and The Language MythA few words on telementation (M. Toolan)Integrating languages (N. Love)Part Three: Language and MeaningMeaning and the principle of linearity (C. Hutton)Irony and theories of meaning (S. Farrow)Part Four: Language and DiscourseConversational utterances and sentences (T.J. Taylor)Analysing fictional dialogue (M. Toolan)Part Five: Language and WritingAnalysis and notation: the case for a non-realist linguistics (C. Hutton)How does writing restructure thought? (R. Harris)Part Six: Language and SocietyWhat makes bad language bad? (H. Davis)What problems? On learning to translate (M. Morris)Index

Hayley Davis, Goldsmiths College, London There is certainly a need for a publication of books on integrational linguistics intended essentially for teaching purposes. I would recommend these books for all the courses that I teach. Vincente Lopez Folgado Product of the alluvium of different theories and models, epistemological inheritor of models ranging from early structuralism to the currently flourishing cognitivism, with a spirit that is eclectic and at the same time critical, integrationism collects the most profitable elements from all the [linguistic] theories that have pretended to the throne ... In short, a good anthological bundle of articles with a very different tone from what we are used to reading, a veritable breath of fresh air into [a discipline - linguistics - ] that is excessively straitjacketed by principles and rules of all shapes and sizes. Alfinge: Revista de Filologia Tony Bex, University of Kent ... integrationalism has emerged as a thriving school throwing up significant challenges to orthodox linguistics. The appearance of [this volume] is to be welcomed ... These chapters are particularly interesting precisely because they resituate the study of language in the circumstances of occurrence, and therefore give a distinct flavour of integrationalism in practice. More work like this will advance the integrationalist programme and force mainstream linguists to reconsider their own preoccupations. Language and Literature