Microscopic Anatomy of Vertebrates

Abstract

Many scholars of language have accepted a view of grammar as a clearly delineated and internally coherent structure which is best understood as a self-contained system. The contributors to this volume propose a very dif- ferent way of approaching and understanding grammar, taking it as part of a broader range of systems which underlie the organization of social life and emphasizing its role in the use of language in everyday interaction and cognition. Taking as their starting-point the position that the very integrity of grammar is bound up with its place in the larger schemes of the orga- nization of human conduct, particularly with social interaction, their essays explore a rich variety of linkages between interaction and grammar.