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In this outstanding book leading scholars from around the world examine the history of linguistics from ancient origins to the present. They consider every aspect of the field from language origins to neurolinguistics, explore linguistic traditions in east and west, chronicle centuries of explanations for language structures, meanings, and usage, and look at how it has been practically applied. The book is organized in six parts. The first looks at the origins of language, the invention of writing, the nature of gesture, and sign languages. Part II examines the history of the analysis and description of sound systems. Part III considers the history of linguistics in China, Korea, Japan, India, and the Middle East, as well as the history of the study of Semitic and Afro-Asiatic. Part IV examines the history of grammar and morphology in the west from the classical world to the present. Part V surveys the history of lexicography semantics, pragmatics, and text and discourse studies. Part VI looks at the history the application of linguistics in fields that include the language classification; social and cultural theory; psychology and the brain sciences; education and translation; computational science; and the development of linguistic corpora. The book ends with a history of the philosophy of linguistics. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Linguistics makes a significant contribution to the historiography of linguistics. It will also be a valuable reference for scholars and students in linguists and related fields, including philosophy and cognitive science.

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Author:   Keith Allan (Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Monash University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.10cm , Height: 5.70cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   1.788kg
ISBN:  

9780199585847

ISBN 10:   0199585849
Pages:   946
Publication Date:   28 March 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Salikoko S. Mufwene: The Origins and the Evolution of Language 2: Peter T. Daniels: The History of Writing as a History of Linguistics 3: Adam Kendon: History of the Study of Gesture 4: Bencie Woll: The History of Sign Language Linguistics 5: Michael K. C. MacMahon: Orthography and the Early History of Phonetics 6: Deborah Loakes: From IPA to PRAAT and Beyond 7: Kate Burridge: Nineteenth Century Study of Sound Change From Rask to Saussure 8: harry van der Hulst: Discoverers of the Phoneme 9: Magaret Magnus: A History of Sound Symbolism 10: Karen Steffen Chung: East Asian Linguistics 11: Peter M. Scharf: Linguistics in India 12: Edward Lipinski: From Semitic to Afro-Asiatic 13: Catherine Atherton and David Blank: From Plato to Priscian: Philosophy's legacy to grammar 14: Anneli Luhtala: Pedagogical Grammars Before the Eighteenth Century 15: Andrew Linn: Vernaculars and the Idea of a Standard Language 16: James P. Blevins: Word-based Morphology From Aristotle to Modern WP 17: Jaap Maat: General or Universal Grammar From Plato to Chomsky 18: James P. Blevins: American Descriptivism ('structuralism') 19: Robert Freidin: Noam Chomsky's Contribution to Linguistics: a sketch 20: Giorgio Graffi: European Linguistics Since Saussure 21: Anna Siewierska: Functional and Cognitive Grammars 22: Patrick Hanks: Lexicography From Earliest Times to the Present 23: Pieter A. M. Seuren: The Logico-philosophical Tradition 24: Dirk Geeraerts: Lexical Semantics From Speculative Etymology to Structuralist Semantics 25: Dirk Geeraerts: Post-structuralist and Cognitive Approaches to Meaning 26: jacob L. Mey: A Brief Sketch of teh Historic Developments of Pragmatics 27: Linda R. Waugh and José Aldemar Álvarez Valencia, with Tom Hong Do, Kristen Michelson, and M'Balia Thomas: Meaning in Texts and Contexts 28: Kurt R. Jankowsky: Comparative, Historical, and Typological Linguistics Since the Eighteenth Century 29: Ana Deumert: Language, Culture, and Society 30: Alan Garnham: Language, The Mind, and The Brain 31: Kirsten Malmkjaer: Translation: the intertranslatability of languages; translation and language teaching 32: Graeme Hirst: Computational Linguistics 33: Tony McEnery and Andrew hardie: The History of Corpus Linguistics 34: Esa Itkonen: Philosophy of Linguistics References Index

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[A] fine resource for scholars and teachers who want to go beyond textbook treatments in introductory courses... Highly recommended. E. L. Battistella, Choice

Author Information

Keith Allan is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Monash University. His books include Linguistic Meaning (two volumes, Routledge 1986), Natural Language Semantics (Blackwell, 2001), and The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics, Second edition (Equinox, 2010). He is co-author with Kate Burridge of Euphemism and Dysphemism (OUP, 1991) and Forbidden Words (CUP, 2006) and co-editor with K. M. Jaszczolt of the Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics (CUP, 2012).

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