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Autore: | Fortescue Michael D. |
Titolo: | The domain of language / / Michael Fortescue |
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 |
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