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Roy Harris (ed.), The language myth in Western culture. Pp. 227. London: Curzon Press, 2002. Hb $90.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2004

Peter Mühlhäusler
Peter Mühlhäusler
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General Linguistics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, [email protected]
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This volume contains the contributions presented at the first plenary conference on Integrational Linguistics held in London in 2000, an event at which I participated. The basic tenets of Integrational Linguistics were developed by Roy Harris at Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s; while many aspects of this approach remain a matter of debate, its assumptions and practices have become sufficiently firm to be the subject of a couple of introductory texts (Harris 1998, Toolan 1996). Harris's agenda has been “to challenge the monumental complacency of mainstream linguistics” (p. 3) by pointing out that the discipline is no more than an elaborate edifice built on a myth.

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Language in Society , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 285 - 289
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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