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Language in Particular: A Lecture

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Please read the following article which is underneath the assignment in the assignment part on module:
Becker, A.L. (1988) Language in Particular: a Lecture. In Tannen, D. (ed.), Linguistics in Context: Connecting Observation and Understanding. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex. article. and summarize it.
Each summary is graded by three other students.
Work slowly! Give a sentence or two of summary for each paragraph, then connect the paragraphs to one another, then connect the sections to one another, then present the entire argument of the article.
If there are "concepts" prepare a list of concepts and their meanings.
Make sure that the other students who review your paper understand the article from your summary. Don't write in a complex sentences. Write in as simple and clear language as you can. Write in active sentences.
To do this summary properly, you may need 5-8 hours.

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Summary of The Article
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Summary of The Article
A.L. Becker's article, Language in Particular: A Lecture, advocates for linguistics in the humanities that focuses on particularity. The author begins by citing examples of linguistics in the humanities, such as Heidegger (1971), Ernesto Grassi (1980), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1976), Paul Ricoeur (1981), Clifford Geertz (1983), Ralph Emerson, and Gertrude Stein (1974) who examined particular bits of language and discovered great fullness in words. Becker supports his proposal of linguistics in the humanities by claiming that current linguistics, particularly scientific linguistics, are deficient in putting the observer into linguistics work and knowledge. In order to illustrate the usefulness of linguistics in the humanities that focuses on particularity, Beckers conducts a short experiment in which a group of people in a seminar write one sentence to describe his action of walking to the stage and placing a book on the podium. The audience can use as many clauses, embeddings, and compoundings as they want to describe the simple act. After asking a few people in the seminar to read their sentences to him, Becker demonstrates the impossibility of having two completely alike sentences.
The participants described the simple action differently because of the richness of language (which is one of the main arguments in the article). Becker argues that language pushed the participants to use different structures, proses, and object-subject arrangements even if they described the same thing. Moreover, he identifies a dimension of difference that shape how people use language: evo...
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