Author: HALLIDAY, M.A.K., GIBBONS, John & NICHOLAS, Howard eds.
Title: Learning, Keeping and Using Language: Selected Papers from the 8th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, 16-21 August 1987. Volume I & II.
Description: John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1990. Hardcovers. Two vols. Several corners bumped, o/wise good. No dj's. Includes papers on The Role of Transfer in Simultaneous Language Acquisition; Are Mothers Really the Main Mediators of Language?; On the Acquisition of Word Order Rules in Swedish as a Second Language; Linguistics Difficulties in Institutional Discourse; Language Maintenance of Overseas Hindi; Torres Strait Creole: Historical Perspectives and New Directions; Technical Discourse and Technocratic Ideology etc. 508pp; 489pp. ISBN-13: 9781556191046 and ISBN-13: 9781556191053.

Keywords: language social linguistics sociology learning second acquisition theory theoretical