Language and Reality (Open Linguistics) - Hardcover

Lamb, Sydney M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826468209 ISBN 13: 9780826468208

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2004

Synopsis

Language and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-written for publication here. Professor Lamb's work in linguistics over the past four decades has been concerned with exposing illusions about language and with finding realities behind the linguistic abstractions that others have dwelt upon. Although he is a leading figure in linguistic science, many of the papers included here are far from well known, some of them unavailable to the wider linguistic community. The book 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'. It explores the theoretical origins of Lamb's ideas about language that have often been described as ahead of their time and includes more recent writings outlining work done in Neurocognitive Linguistics.

About this title

About the Author

Sydney Lamb is Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Texas, USA. Jonathan Webster is Acting Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826468209
• ISBN 13: 9780826468208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Webster Jonathan J.