Language, Bananas and Bonobos: Linguistic Problems, Puzzles and Polemics - Brossura

Smith, Neil

 
9780631228721: Language, Bananas and Bonobos: Linguistic Problems, Puzzles and Polemics
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ISBN 10: 0631228721 ISBN 13: 9780631228721
Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2001

Sinossi

Language, Bananas, and Bonobos presents a series of engaging reflections on concerns such as our knowledge and use of language, political correctness, and the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees. In doing so, this volume provides new insights into linguistics that are of universal interest.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Neil Smith is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London, and has been Head of the Linguistics Section of the Department since 1972. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including The Twitter Machine (Blackwell 1989) and The Mind of a Savant (with Ianthi Tsimpli, Blackwell, 1995). He is one of the editors of Lingua, and is on the board of the Cambridge Studies in Linguistics.

Dalla quarta di copertina

How can people who are both blind and deaf communicate? What makes Woody Allen funny? Is it normal to hear colors and see sounds? If questions like these have puzzled you, this book of essays on the nature of language will quench your curiosity.

Language pervades every aspect of life. It is essential to everyone everywhere - from politicians to poets, philosophers to pharmacists - yet linguistics is often forbidding. This collection of short, accessible essays changes that. Language, Bananas, and Bonobos presents a series of engaging reflections on concerns such as our knowledge and use of language, political correctness, and the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees. In doing so, the volume provides new insights into this subject of universal interest.

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Editore
Wiley-Blackwell
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0631228721
ISBN 13 
9780631228721
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
159
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780631228714: Language, Bananas, and Bonobos: Linguistic Problems, Puzzles and Polemics

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0631228713 ISBN 13:  9780631228714
Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 2001
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