The Study of Language

Book Description

Critics

• Learning to speak? It's child's play

  New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind Noam Chomsky Cambridge UP £12.95, pp230 Buy it at BOL Professor Noam Chomsky is internationally renowned on two grounds - he is a tireless political publicist and polemicist, and the most influential the ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• From Adam to Aarsleff

  The modest title of Hans Aarsleff’s book From Locke to Saussure conceals, among other things, the fact that it goes a long way beyond Saussure. Its implications reach right down to linguistic controversies which continue unabated at the present day. ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

1 Review

• 

  Interesting and easy to read

  This is a good book for you to start to learn more about language, starting from the origins of language, morphology, syntax, semantics, to some other applied areas of language study like first language acquistion, sign language and the speech recognition systems.

  What I like most from the boo ... (continue)

  This is a good book for you to start to learn more about language, starting from the origins of language, morphology, syntax, semantics, to some other applied areas of language study like first language acquistion, sign language and the speech recognition systems.

  What I like most from the book are those short stories or conversations at the beginning of each chapter related to the corresponding topic.

  That's what I found at the beginning of chapter 15, Language and the brain :P

  Male (answering phone): Hello, Antoine's Hair Studio
  Female: I'd like to make an appointment with Michael for next week Thursday
  Male: Wolud that be for a haircut?
  Female: A haircut and a blow job
  Male: (silence)
  Female: Oh, I mean a blow dry, a haircut and a blow dry

  Maryann Overstreet (1995)

  Is this helpful?

  Corine... said on May 28, 2006 | Add your feedback

Book Details

• Rating:
  (13)
  • 5 stars
  • 4 stars
  • 3 stars
  • 2 stars
  • 1 star
• English Books
• Paperback 284 Pages
• Edition: 3
• ISBN-10: 0521543207
• ISBN-13: 9780521543200
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pub date: Nov 28, 2005
• Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1097 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others

Prices Change currency & sellers