THE DOMAIN OF LANGUAGE by Michael Fortescue ( 9788772897066 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE DOMAIN OF LANGUAGE

By:

Michael Fortescue

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Hardback

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8772897066

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9788772897066

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Publisher:

MUSEUM TUSCULANUM PRESS

Pub. date:

1 February, 2002

Pages:

391

Synopsis:

This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with their different favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and -- worse still -- lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book demonstrates that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. In an unconventional way Michael Fortescue introduces his subject as a kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a useful commentary on the state of the discipline today.

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Denmark

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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