Despite the profane wordings in title above, this paper will be a civilized and academic inquest into sacrosanct “compendium” world has come to venerate. Touted by lexicographer as panacea every linguistic worry, dictionary indeed become source of reference reverence from essentially walk life. This essay on other hand, direct contention with deeply erroneously held views laymen linguists alike...

In this paper an integrationist linguist (Peter E Jones) and Ecological Psychologist (Catherine Read) open a dialogue on the possibility of productive relationship between approach to language communication Roy Harris James Gibson's Psychology perceiving/acting/knowing. Within their own disciplinary contexts, each position is one profound critique innovation in relation established pervasive ‘m...

This paper looks at the role of situated discourse-as-practice in denaturalising and delegitimising capitalist/integrationist models of development espoused by many national and transnational groups. It focuses on intercultural discourse between the Makushi Amerindians of Guyana and professional development workers and draws on the descriptive methods of Systemic Functional Linguistics, Bernste...

As part of the Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture series, this volume mainly introduces the interdisciplinary and multi-methodological character of (critical) discourse analysis (CDA). Some of the contributions were further developed through discussion at the workshop on ‘New Agenda in CDA’ that was convened in 2003 at the University of Vienna. The intention of the editors wa...

The present special issue goes back to the online conference entitled Integrationism and Language Ideologies (March 15-20, 2021), which was organized by Policy Group of Federal University Santa Catarina in conjunction with International Association for Integrational Study Communication (IAISLC). contributions this are most part revised versions papers presented at event. also features an interv...

Nigel Lowther Love is associate professor of linguistics at University of Cape Town. He was born in 1950 in the U.K. He received his B.A. (1973), M.A. (1976) and D. Phil. (1976) from Oxford University. His Ph.D. thesis title was: The generative phonological analysis of non-vocalic alternations in Modern French. Nigel Love has been the invited lecturer or conference speaker at universities in: A...

In this paper I wanted to give a personal view on where believe integrationism (Harris, 1981, 1998) sits in the current field of linguistics and applied research. doing so hoped try clarify what see as distinctive contribution that integrationist tradition may make responding challenge Alastair Pennycook Sinfree Makoni (2020) have posed re-made which can learn from do justice struggles for both...

Traditional information systems theory and practice assumes a tight coupling or integration between workpractices in organisations and the information systems which are notionally built to support them. The relationship between the integration and the separation of workpractices and system features has been theorised as dialectical. It has also been argued that the goal of system design would b...