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Language and reality / Sydney Lamb ; edited by Jonathan Webster.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lamb, Sydney M.
- Series:
- Open Linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages--Philosophy.
- Language and languages.
- Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (545 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Language and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-worked for publication here. Although he is a leading figure in linguistic science, many of the papers are far from well known, some of them having appeared in more obscure venues of publication, and for the most part unavailable to the wider linguistic community. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which includes papers offering insight into the man behind this pioneering approach to doing linguistics that might best be summed up as "linguistics to
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Editor's Introduction; PART ONE: THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED BY; PART TWO: THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE; PART THREE: NEUROCOGNITIVE LINGUISTICS; PART FOUR: LANGUAGE IN THE REAL WORLD; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 505-517) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611298913
- 9781281298911
- 1281298913
- 9781847140777
- 1847140777
- OCLC:
- 290598279
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