Mark Halpern

Language and Human Nature (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Exposes a century's worth of flawed thinking about language, to exhibit some of the dangers it presents, and to suggest a path to recovery. This book examines the causes of changes in the English vocabulary. It discusses a variety of verbal solecisms, vulgarisms, and infelicities generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351509831
• Artikelnr.: 48867648

Autorenporträt

Mark Halpern

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Question of Change in Language
2: How Language is Studied Today
3: Linguistic Authority: Rules, Dictionaries, and Teaching
4: Descriptivist, Prescriptivist, and Linguistic Activist
5: The Eskimo Snow Vocabulary Controversy-A Case Study
6: A People's Linguistics
7: Restoring Rhetoric to Its Throne
8: Decadence and Diseases of Language
9: Plagiarism and Misquotation: the Use of Others' Thoughts and Words
10: What is To Be Done?
APPENDIX A: Linguistics as a Science
APPENDIX B: Eskimo-Language Terms for Snow and Ice
APPENDIX C: AI and the Golem project - the reverse-engineering twins
APPENDIX D: Notes on Chomsky and the Chomskyan literature
APPENDIX E: A Language of Mathematics? A Proof of Programs?
APPENDIX F: The Principal Players Identified
APPENDIX G: What is A 'Foreign Term'?