one or two texts

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[From: Dennis Delprato (920913)]

Eileen Prince asked for two recommended books. I'll recommend
one, J. R. Kantor's *Psychological Linguistics*, 1977, Principia
Press. You will not find PCT explicitly presented here. What
you will find is a naturalistic re-examination of linguistics
free from environmentalistic and mentalistic approaches that
underlie all alternatives to how PCT handles linguistic acts.
Unless one has rather thoroughly "digested" system theory and
cybernetics (and bracketed the fluff from both), one will likely
find Kantor's linguistics a valuable lead into detailed PCT
handling of linguistic acts.

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I am a generally non-contributing member of this list. This is because
my area of specialization is language (ESL) teaching and my academic
background is in linguistics (though also psycholinguistics). I am
writing this to request suggestions on one or two texts. That is, the
old question of if you could only read oner or two books about ..., what
would you choose.

Thanks in advance.

Eileen Prince
Northeastern University