There was especially good reason to take this point of view given the conditions in which American linguistics developed from the end of the 19th century.
It looks at the term from perspectives which include art, linguistics, society and comedy, and begins with a segment from the 1965 propaganda film Perversion for Profit.
There's his own interpretation of Paul Bowles's savage short story A Distant Episode, in which a linguistics professor has his tongue cut out in the desert.
"The number of people who contacted us in the last year is about 20, which in linguistics is a bit largish," Richards said.
In a statement, the publisher said: "Had we made the journal open access only and at the suggested price point, it would have rendered the journal no longer viable - something that would serve nobody, least of which the linguistics community".
It rounds off the lectures by not only summarizing the previous talks, but also pointing out directions toward which educational linguistics should develop.
The subtitle of the collection, as the editor explains, adapts a well-known saying of Firth's, which characterises linguistics as language turned back on itself, and very fittingly describes the general spirit of this volume.
Palmer's proposal called for three traditions in anthropological linguistics to be applied to cognitive linguistics, which was what he called cultural linguistics.
All this accords, I believe, with Halliday's early 1950s dream of a Marxist linguistics which would be "a socially accountable linguistics, and this in two distinct though related senses: that it put language in its social context, and at the same time it put linguistics in its social context, as a mode of intervention in critical social practices".
These two branches of mathematical linguistics, which may be termed statistical and algebraic linguistics, respectively, are typically distinct.
