Anthropological Linguistics: An Introduction - Brossura

Foley, William A.

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ISBN 10: 0631151222 ISBN 13: 9780631151227

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 1997

Riassunto

It starts from a theoretical viewpoint of both language and culture as conventionalised forms of situated practice and uses this as a unifying framework to cover the full range of topics normally treated under the rubric of language and culture.

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Recensione:

"Foley′s book illustrates quite convincingly that ′Linguistics without anthropology is sterile, anthropology without linguistics is blind′(Hockett 1973: 675)" Gunter Senft, Max–Planck–Institute for Psycholinguistics

"I applaud Foley for having overcome one of the main constraints of structuralist – inspired approaches to analysis." Peter Muhlhausler, University of Adelaide

L'autore:

William A. Foley is Professor of Lingusitics at the University of Sydney. He is author of Functional Syntax and Universal Grammar (with R. van Valin) and The Papuan Languages fo New Guinea, and editor of The Role of Theory in Language Description.

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• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0631151222
• ISBN 13: 9780631151227
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 516