By P. H. Matthews
Linguistics falls within the hole among arts and technological know-how, at the edges of which the main attention-grabbing discoveries and an important difficulties are stumbled on. instead of following the traditional association of many modern introductions to the topic, the writer of this stimulating advisor starts off his dialogue with the oldest, 'arts' finish of the topic and strikes chronologically via to the most recent study - the 'science' facets.
A sequence of brief thematic chapters glance in flip at such components because the prehistory of languages and their universal origins, language and evolution, language in time and area (the nature of switch inherent in language), grammars and dictionaries (how systematic is language?), and phonetics. Explication of the most recent discoveries touching on language within the mind completes the assurance of all significant elements of linguistics from a clean and insightful attitude.
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20 This must necessarily involve the media (see Koniuszaniec & Blaszkowska 2003: 277), because they surely have an important role to play in disseminating 'non-sexist' language use. Notes 1 Henceforth all references are to studies contained in this volume, unless otherwise specified. 2 According to Curzan (2000: 572): The way in which language users make distinctions between male and female and between masculine and feminine in their culture will be reflected in the distinctions they made between masculine and feminine in their language, as long as the gender system is a semantic one.
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