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Download full textLeech, Geoffrey N. – 1976
This paper accepts Labov's (1973) criticisms of the categorial approach, i.e., the view that linguistic units are categories which are discrete, invariant, qualitatively distinct, conjunctively defined, and composed of atomic primes, and follows Labov in attempting to develop a non-categorial (or fuzzy-categorial) approach to lexical semantics,…
Descriptors: Definitions, Dictionaries, Evaluation Methods, Language Patterns
Peer reviewedSchiffrin, Deborah – Language & Communication, 1997
Illustrates the interdependence between theory and method by showing how the methods underling even a relatively simple analysis of discourse are imbued with theoretical import. Focuses on two methodological decisions that are a standard part of the set of discourse analytic tools: what is context and what is the unit of analysis? (39 references)…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Decision Making, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography
