Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Nigel Love (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780415649582

ISBN 10:   0415649587
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   03 June 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

Contributors Preface 1. Language, history and Language and History 2. The end of linear narrative? Reflections on the historiography of English 3. History and comparative philology 4. Word-stories: etymology as history 5. Language: object or event? The integration of language and life 6. Indeterminacy of meaning and semantic change 7. On the cusp: Antoine Meillet as a sociologist of language 8. ‘The grammatical being called a nation’: history and the construction of political and linguistic nationalism 9. How to make history with words 10. Talking about what happened 11. Part of the meaning/history of euro: integrational corpus linguistics 12. Language and prehistory 13. Bridges to history: biomechanical constraints in language

Reviews

Author Information

Nigel Love

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions