Sydney Lamb

Language and Reality (eBook, PDF)

Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb
Redaktion: Webster, Jonathan J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Language and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-worked for publication here. Although he is a leading figure in linguistic science, many of the papers are far from well known, some of them having appeared in more obscure venues of publication, and for the most part unavailable to the wider linguistic community. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which includes papers offering insight into the man behind this pioneering approach to doing linguistics that might best be summed up as "linguistics to the beat of a different drummer." The papers in Part II explore the theoretical origins of Lamb's ideas about language that have often been described as ahead of their time. Part III includes more recent writings outlining work done in Neurocognitive Linguistics. Studies of the interconnectedness of language with other kinds of human experience and with history are presented in Part IV.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847140777
• Artikelnr.: 40774286

Autorenporträt

Sydney Lamb is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Road Less Traveled By
1. Linguistics to the Beat of a Different Drummer
2. On The Aims of Linguistics
3. Mary Haas: Lessons in and out of the Classroom
4. Translation and the Structure of Language
Part II. The Structure of Language
5. Epilegomena to a Theory of Language
6. Lexicology and Semantics
7. Some Types of Ordering
8. Language as a Network of Relationships
9. Mutations and Relations
10. Descriptive Process
11. Using Language and Knowing How
Part III. Neurocognitive Linguistics
12. Language as a Real Biological System
13. Neurocognitive Structure in the Interplay of Language and Thought
14. Interpreting Discourse
15. Learning Syntax: A Neurocognitive Approach
16. Dimensions of the Territory of Neurolinguistics
17. Questions of Evidence in Neurocognitive Linguistics
18. On the Perception of Speech
Part IV. Language in the Real World
19. Linguistic Diversification and Extinction in North America
20. Language and Animals.
21. Long-Range Relationships
22. What is a Language?
23. Linguistics, Semiotics, and the Human Information System
24. Viewing Language Broadly
25. Re?examining the Family Tree Theory of Linguistic Classification
26. Objects of Study in Linguistics
27. Meaning in Language and Meaning in Music
28. Philosophical Differences and Cognitive Styles
Glossary of Technical Terms