The domain of language / / Michael Fortescue
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| Autore: |
Fortescue Michael D.
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| Titolo: |
The domain of language / / Michael Fortescue
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| Pubblicazione: | Copenhagen, Denmark : , : Museum Tusculanum Press, , 2002, 2004 |
| ©2004 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 410 |
| Soggetto topico: | Linguistics |
| Language and languages - Philosophy | |
| Note generali: | 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. | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The domain of language |
| ISBN: | 8763502135 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910765717203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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