The Language Impact: Evolution-System-Discourse - Rilegato

Fill, Alwin Frank

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ISBN 10: 1845537777 ISBN 13: 9781845537777

Casa editrice: Equinox, 2010

Riassunto

With language, we can make things happen, we can influence, even manipulate other people. But language misunderstood can have disastrous consequences. July 1945: The mistranslation of Japan's answer to the US ultimatum may have been responsible for the atom bombs falling on Hiroshima and Nagasaki!

This book is a long overdue survey of all the effects of language on the three levels of evolution, system and discourse - and of what thinkers have written about them. From Plato's critique of Sophistry to Bacon's idola fori, Humboldt's 'language is energy', and finally Wittgenstein's 'language games' - this book deals critically with the power of language and what philosophers have said about it. A glossary of terms and an annotated list of thinkers make this book easy to use.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Alwin Frank Fill is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Graz, Austria. His previous books include Okolinguistik: Eine Einfuhrung (Gunter Narr, 1993), Das Prinzip Spannung (Gunter Narr, 2003 (2nd ed. 2007) and (co-edited together with Peter Muhlhausler) The Ecolinguistics Reader (Continuum, 2001).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Equinox
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1845537777
• ISBN 13: 9781845537777
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 263
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile