Laurie (Hrsg.) Bauer

Questions about Language

What Everyone Should Know About Language in the 21st Century

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Questions About Language sets out to answer, in a readable yet insightful format, a series of vital questions about language, some of which language specialists are regularly asked, and some of which are so surprising that only the specialists think about them.In this handy guide, sixteen language experts answer challenging questions about language, from What makes a language a language? to Do people swear because they don't know enough words? Illustrating the complexity of human language, and the way in which we use it, the twelve chapters each end with a section on further reading for anyone interested in following up on the topic.Covering… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Calude, Andreea S. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-00-004337-2
EAN: 9781000043372
Produktnummer: 33156120
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 198 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 980 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 4 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 1 schwarz-weiße Tabellen

Über den Autor

Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of over twenty books including The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (2013), which won the LSA's Leonard Bloomfield Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities Medal.Andreea S. Calude is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has a background in mathematics and linguistics and researches (spoken) grammar, language evolution, loanwords and just about any quantitative language-related question she can get data on. She has authored the TED ED Lesson Does Grammar Matter?.