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Thanks for this sounds, interesting.
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> From: William Benzon
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 11:42 am
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> Cc: Bill Croft
> Subject: FW: "Explaining Language Change"
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> Yo memeticists -- I figure this book should be of interest to you -- Bill
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> From: Bill Croft <w.croft@man.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: Bill Croft <w.croft@man.ac.uk>
> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 17:00:11 -0800 ( PST)
> To: cogling@ucsd.edu
> Subject: "Explaining Language Change"
>
> I would like to announce that my book "Explaining Language
> Change" is finally available outside the UK---it is now listed as
> available at a major Internet bookseller, listed at US$22
> paperback (the UK price is 19.99 pounds).
>
> I am sending this announcement because the publisher (Longman)
> was bought up by Pearson, who terminated linguistics
> publication, is not marketing their recent linguistics books, and
> has not answered correspondence.
>
> I have appended the jacket description of the book. My apologies
> to those who receive multiple copies of this announcement.
>
> Bill Croft
>
>
> "Explaining Language Change"
> William Croft, University of Manchester
> ISBN 0-582-35677-6 (paperback), June 2000. Pp. xvi, 287.
>
> Ever since the origins of both linguistics and evolutionary
> biology in the 19th century, scholars have noted the similarity
> between biological evolution and language change. Yet until
> recently neither linguists nor biologists have developed a model
> of evolution general enough to apply across the two fields. Even
> in linguistics, the field is split between the historical
> linguists who study change in language structure, and the
> sociolinguists who study social variation in the speech
> community.
>
> "Explaining language change" represents the first thoroughly
> worked out framework for language evolution, building on the
> pioneering ideas of Richard Dawkins and David Hull in biology
> and philosophy of science. Its central thesis is that the locus
> of language change is the utterance in social intercourse.
> Linguistic innovations emerge from the remarkable complexity of
> communication in social interaction. Once innovations occur,
> they are propagated through the equally complex social
> structures of the speech communities we participate in.
>
> "Explaining language change" provides a framework for assessing
> current theories of language change, and advances new ideas
> about grammatical reanalysis, conventional and nonconventional
> use of language, the structure of speech communities, language
> mixing, and the notion of "progress" in language change.
> "Explaining language change" reintegrates sociolinguistics and
> historical linguistics, weaving together research on grammatical
> change, pragmatics, social variation, language contact and
> genetic linguistics.
>
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