03459nam 2200493 a 450 991081680060332120251117115901.0(CKB)1000000000002230(OCoLC)70770696(CaPaEBR)ebrary10044821(SSID)ssj0000278796(PQKBManifestationID)11228504(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000278796(PQKBWorkID)10259036(PQKB)10222220(MiAaPQ)EBC3374874(Au-PeEL)EBL3374874(CaPaEBR)ebr10044821(BIP)7511794(EXLCZ)99100000000000223020020301d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe domain of language /Michael FortescueCopenhagen Museum Tusculanum Press20021 online resource (391 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph87-7289-706-6 Intro -- The Domain of Language -- Contents -- 1. The back way in -- 2. Semiotics at gunpoint -- 3. Plumbing the depths: from phonetics to phonology -- 4. The library: where words gather -- 5. Of syntax and thumb-tacks -- 6. Feeling the way forward -- 7. Sentenced (almost) to death: an introduction to pragmatics -- 8. A discourse concerning the family archives -- 9. Nursery talk -- 10. The kitchens: where William is witness to a right old morphophonological stew -- 11. In a manner of speaking... -- 12. Back to the apes -- 13. Birds of a feather -- 14. The historical propagation of language -- 15. Language in the wild: a forest walk -- 16. Linguistics through the ages -- 17. Pull-ups and put-downs: how to transform your life by hopping on bars -- 18. A matter of phrasing -- 19. Events come to life -- 20. The inner sanctum -- 21. The way back -- Questions that might be asked.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. Michael Fortescue(/link) is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Language relations across Bering Strait: reappraising the archeological and linguistic evidence (London, 1998), and Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics (Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2001).LinguisticsLinguistics.410Fortescue Michael D662476MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816800603321The domain of language2234606UNINA