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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784973503321

Autore

Lamb Sydney M

Titolo

Language and reality [[electronic resource] /] / Sydney Lamb ; edited by Jonathan Webster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2004

ISBN

1-281-29891-3

9786611298913

1-84714-077-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (545 p.)

Collana

Open Linguistics

Altri autori (Persone)

WebsterJonathan <1955->

Disciplina

401

Soggetti

Language and languages - Philosophy

Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-517) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Editor's Introduction; PART ONE: THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED BY; PART TWO: THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE; PART THREE: NEUROCOGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; PART FOUR: LANGUAGE IN THE REAL WORLD; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Language and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-worked for publication here. Although he is a leading figure in linguistic science, many of the papers are far from well known, some of them having appeared in more obscure venues of publication, and for the most part unavailable to the wider linguistic community. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which includes papers offering insight into the man behind this pioneering approach to doing linguistics that might best be summed up as "linguistics to