02193oam 2200361 450 991076571720332120230617034351.08763502135(ebook)(CKB)3450000000002782(EXLCZ)99345000000000278220121018e20042002 fy| 0engurb|#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe domain of language /Michael FortescueCopenhagen, Denmark :Museum Tusculanum Press,2002, 2004©20041 online resource (319 pages) illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)Includes drawings by Henrik Maribo."Published with support from: The Faculty for the Humanities, University of Copenhagen, Københavns Universitets Almene Fond, The Danish Research Council for the Humanities" --title-page verso.This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with their various favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and - worse still - lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book demonstrates that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. In an unconventional way, Michael Fortescue introduces his subject as a kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a useful commentary on the state of the discipline today.LinguisticsLanguage and languagesPhilosophyLinguistics.Language and languagesPhilosophy.410Fortescue Michael D.662476UkMaJRU9910765717203321The domain of language2234606UNINA