Goodbye Chomsky, and Other Essays on Language - Softcover

King, Robert D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1645759547 ISBN 13: 9781645759546

Verlag: Austin Macauley, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.

This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not people who speak several languages but academic linguists (for whom linguistics is the scientific study of language). Though this book is informed by linguistics, it is not a linguistics book, rather a language-not-linguistics book. It is a book about topics involving language that interest me and that I hope will be interesting to the intellectually curious reader.

Its topics include J.R.R. Tolkien's languages of Middle-earth, invented and artificial languages, language and gender, dialects, American versus British (Noah Webster), the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis, African-American vernacular English, the history of English, English as the world's language, language death, the rebirth of Hebrew in Israel, the Yiddish language, language in India, language and nationalism, DNA and the origins of language, the dilemma of the postcolonial writer, and more.

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Robert D. King was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, attended Georgia Institute of Technology where he received a B.S. and an M.S. in mathematics, then the University of Stuttgart as an exchange student in 1957–1958, finally the University of Wisconsin where he received an M.A. in German and a Ph.D. in Germanic linguistics. He worked as a computer programmer at Cape Canaveral in 1960–1961 and did linguistic fieldwork in India beginning in 1963 down to 2005. He joined the linguistics faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 1965 and published extensively on theoretical linguistics, specializing in historical linguistics, later focusing on Yiddish and India. He was the Founding Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas, serving in administration from 1974–1999. His books include Historical Linguistics and Generative Grammar (1969) and Nehru and the Language Politics of India (1997). He has published in The Atlantic Monthly and the journals Commentary, Mosaic, Quillette, National Review, and Tablet.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Austin Macauley
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1645759547
• ISBN 13: 9781645759546
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 328
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