Introducing Linguistics - Softcover

Trask, R. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840466359 ISBN 13: 9781840466355

Verlag: Icon Books, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

More than anything else, language is what makes us human. Linguistics, the discipline which studies the structure, function and phenomena of language, has uncovered many surprising and fascinating things about the nature of our human language faculty. But these findings are often presented in opaque technical terminology which hides their simplicity and beauty.
Introducing Linguistics demystifies the subject, presenting a clear account of what linguists do, how they go about it, and what they have achieved so far. A summary of the history of linguistics, from Aristotle to Chomsky, includes the chief contributions of its leading figures - Saussure, the Prague Circle, the American structuralists, Sapir, Bloomfield and others.
This book provides a review of the most recent and dramatic advances in the field, such as first-language acquisition by children, language in the brain, sign languages, language change and linguistic prehistory, men's and women's language, language engineering and the universal properties of languages.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

R. L. Trask was a professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1840466359
• ISBN 13: 9781840466355
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Mayblin Bill
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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