Language Structure and Environment: Social, cultural, and natural factors: 6 (Cognitive Linguistic Studies in Cultural Contexts) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027204098 ISBN 13: 9789027204097

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2015

Synopsis

Language Structure and Environment is a broad introduction to how languages are shaped by their environment. It makes the argument that the social, cultural, and natural environment of speakers influences the structures and development of the languages they speak. After a general overview, the contributors explain in a number of detailed case studies how specific cultural, societal, geographical, evolutionary and meta-linguistic pressures determine the development of specific grammatical features and the global structure of a varied selection of languages. This is a work of meticulous scholarship at the forefront of a burgeoning field of linguistics.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027204098
• ISBN 13: 9789027204097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 376
• Editor: De Busser Rik, LaPolla Randy J.