It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary
linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a
radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer
charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus,
Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth
century, when the science of linguistics was developed, as he
analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development
as a written form. He considers the rise of pidgin, creole, jargon
and slang, as well as the effects radio and television, propaganda,
advertising and the media are having on language today. Originally
published in 1999, this new format edition, which includes a new
preface by the author, also shows how digital media will continue
to reshape and re-invent the ways in which we communicate.
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