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Domain of Language (Hardcover)
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Domain of Language (Hardcover)
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This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that
Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows
that linguistics can be characterised differently than as
proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks
from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with
their different favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear
to outsiders as fragmented and -- worse still -- lacking in
relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book
demonstrates that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be
entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is
indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. In an
unconventional way Michael Fortescue introduces his subject as a
kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists,
as well as students, should enjoy as a useful commentary on the
state of the discipline today.
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