Reviews for The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Vol. 2

The average rating for The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Vol. 2 based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-12 00:00:00 Brandy Cook i finally managed to finish it and oh god what a struggle it was.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-24 00:00:00 Candice Barber Sensible overview of topics in sociolinguistics, with an enjoyable account of prescriptivism and the "complaint tradition". Bonus: Chapter 2 alerted me to an absurdly cranky essay on malapropisms (broadly understood) by Kingsley Amis ("Getting It Wrong", 1980) that compares "floating hopefully" to Japanese cars as "the most widely and loudly denounced import to the U.K.", and suggests adding the following usage label to the dictionary to supplement joc. (jocular) and vulg. (vulgar): "illit. (illiterate)" (33).