Total Speech: An Integrational Linguistic Approach to Language

by Michael Toolan

Book Overview

Units, rules, codes, systems: this is how most linguists study language. Integrationalists such as Michael Toolan, however, focus instead on how language functions in seamless tandem with the rest of human activity. In Total Speech, Toolan provides a clear and comprehensive account of integrationalism, a major new theory of language that declines to accept that text and context, language and world, are distinct and stable categories. At the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822317907
• ISBN13: 9780822317906
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"