Introducing Linguistics: a Graphic Guide
by Trask, R. L.
Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, this title reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.
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- Full title :Introducing Linguistics : a Graphic Guide.
Summary
Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, this title reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.
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- Publication Date:2009.
- Edition:2nd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Icon Books Ltd
- Place of Publication:Duxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2009.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (197 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781848317710, 1848317719
- oclc:on1066180914
- LC Classification:P121
- Dewey Decimal:410
Table of Contents
Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; A Brief History of Linguistics; An Indian Linguist; The Greek Origins of Linguistics; Grammar or Parts of Speech; Latin Grammar; Traditional Grammar; The Port-Royal Grammar; Historical Linguistics; Ferdinand de Saussure; Saussure's Lectures on General Linguistics; Saussure's Structuralism; An Example from English; An Example from Spanish; Synchronic and Diachronic Structures; Trubetzkoy's Phonology; Jakobson's Work on Linguistics; Jakobson and Semiotics; The Origins of American Linguistics; Sapir's General Linguistics; The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis.
Example of the Sapir-Whorf HypothesisA Pioneer of American Structuralism; Post-Bloomfieldian Structruralists; The Formalism of Zellig Harris; Chomsky's Generative Grammar; Transformational Grammar; Chomsky's Programme; Paradox of the TG Programme; The Functional Approach; What Does "Function" Communicate?; Systemic Functional Linguistics: Texts; Cognitive Linguistics; Gendering Nouns; Dyirbal Noun Genders; Language Perception Differences; Greek Perception of Time; Metaphor; What is Language?; Natural Language; Our Language Faculty; What's Special About Human Languages?
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