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Chargement... Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (original 2003; édition 2003)par P. H. Matthews (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. After a few false starts due to popular science approaches to linguistics, this was exactly that book i was looking for. it's maybe a two hour read, but covers everything from linguistic genealogy to parsing to the shapes your throat needs to warp into to make any of the sound we subconsciously make thousands of times a day. Highly recommended. This was an interesting read, some good information. It was a bit too scientific for me though, my interest is more in the construction of language rather than the science of sounds, which is why the "A very short introduction" series is always my go to for new topics, always a quick read with basic information. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, "arts" end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the newest research-the "science" aspects. A series of short thematic chapters look in turn at such areas as the prehistory of languages and their common origins, language and evolution, language in time and space (the nature of change inherent in language), grammars and dictionaries (how systematic is language?), and phonetics. Explication of the newest discoveries pertaining to language in the brain completes the coverage of all major aspects of linguistics from a refreshing and insightful angle. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Speech is a lot more complicated than I first thought, I have a renewed appreciation for what my mouth does naturally every day. It also raises the question of what separates a language and a dialect of a language, since ultimately most languages have common ancestors.
At the end it recommends some other books to further one's education on linguistics. I'm going to check out a few that sounds interesting. ( )