Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century
Author:   John E. Joseph ,  Nigel Love ,  Talbot J Taylor
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415063968


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 May 2001
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John E. Joseph ,  Nigel Love ,  Talbot J Taylor
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780415063968


ISBN 10:   0415063965
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 May 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Sapir on language, culture and personality 2 Jakobson and structuralism 3 Orwell on language and politics 4 Whorf on language and thought 5 Firth on language and context 6 Wittgenstein on grammatical investigations 7 Austin on language as action 8 Skinner on verbal behaviour 9 Chomsky on language as biology 10 Labov on linguistic variation 11 Goffman on the communicating self 12 Bruner on the child’s passport into language 13 Derrida on the linguistic sign and writing 14 Harris on linguistics without languages 15 Kanzi on human language

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'Fills a long-standing need for an intellectually strong survey of thought about language that bridges the divide between language, philosophy and linguistics...should be required reading in virtually any academic course, graduate or undergraduate, that deals to any extent with language.' - Paul Hopper, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.


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John E. Joseph is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Nigel Love is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. Talbot J. Taylor is L.G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA.

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