The Domain of Language - Hardcover

Fortescue, Mihcael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8772897066 ISBN 13: 9788772897066

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2002

Synopsis

This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with their different favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and -- worse still -- lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book demonstrates that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. In an unconventional way Michael Fortescue introduces his subject as a kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a useful commentary on the state of the discipline today.

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About the Author

Michael Fortescue is Professor of Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of 'Language realtions across Bering Strait: reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence' (London 1998) and 'Pattern and Process: a Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics' (Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2001).

Edition details

• Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8772897066
• ISBN 13: 9788772897066
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 392