Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: ORIENTATION TO HARD-SCIENCE LINGUISTICS -- 1 The Depth Hypothesis and the New Hard-Science Linguistics -- 2 Issues in Hard-Science Linguistics -- 3 An Introduction to Hard-Science Linguistics -- 4 Rules of Order -- PART II: RECONSTITUTING PHONETICS-PHONOLOGY -- 5 Towards a Physical Definition of the Vowel Systems of Languages -- 6 Articulatory Events are Given in Advance -- 7 An Outline of Hard-Science Phonetics-Phonology -- PART III: IN SEARCH OF CONTEXT -- 8 Reconstituting Notions of Reference -- 9 Reconstituting Austin's Verdictives -- 10 Analysis of a Business Negotiation -- 11 Lottery Betting -- PART IV: VARIATIONAL AND HISTORICAL LINGUSTICS -- 12 Moving a Classic Applied Linguistics Study into the Real World -- 13 Describing Frisian Communities in Terms of Human Linguistics -- 14 Mayday or m'aider. A Call for Help in Understanding Linguistic Change -- 15 Linguistic Change as Changes in Linkages: Fifteenth-Century English -- PART V: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES -- 16 The Victorian Stereotype of an Irishman -- 17 Needs as Expressed in Educational Discourse on the Basis of Textbooks in Linguistics -- PART VI: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS -- 18 The Question of Translation -- 19 Communicating Scientific Experiments in Journal Articles -- PART VII: DISCIPLINARY CONSIDERATIONS -- 20 The Riches of the New World -- 21 Coping with Cultural Differences -- 22 The Conduct of Hard-Science Research -- 23 To be a Scientist -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.