Language & Human Nature - Softcover

Halpern, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587900890 ISBN 13: 9781587900891

Publisher: Regent Pr, 2006

Synopsis

As a professional writer and editor, the author has come to a critical view of the scholarly pursuit of linguistics, arguing that it was a mistake to move away from the valid knowledge of philology towards linguistics, which in endeavoring to be scientifically descriptive strips meaning from words. While not going as far as calling for an English Academy along the lines of the French Academy, he supports a more prescriptivist approach to language in light of the "language degradation" that results from the linguistic view of language and the difficulties it inflicts outside of the academy for professional writers and speakers, as well as for average citizens. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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About the Author

Mark Halpern is a freelance editor and writer. He holds degrees in English Language and Literature from the City College of New York and Columbia University. His writings have appeared in The Vocabula Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The American Scholar, and The New Atlantis. He is the author of Binding Time, a book about computer programming.

Edition details

• Publisher: Regent Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1587900890
• ISBN 13: 9781587900891
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400