The domain of language / / Michael Fortescue

• Autore: Fortescue Michael D
• Pubblicazione: Copenhagen, : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (391 p.)
• Disciplina: 410
• Soggetto topico: Linguistics
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• 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. 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).
• Titolo autorizzato: The domain of language
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816800603321
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