This insightful study proposes a unified theory of speech through which conflicting ideas about language might be understood. It is founded on a number of key points, such as the continuum of linguistic behaviour, extensive variation in language features, the importance of regional and social proximity to shared linguistic production, and differential frequency as...
Linguistics
The Linguistics of Speech
Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse
Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy is a culmination of a project that has taken nearly eleven years to complete. It began in response to the findings from a survey to our college students on their reading habits and their reading histories. Manga was repeatedly raised as something they were currently reading and had read since childhood. As teachers of reading and writing, we posed the following...