John Haiman

Gebundenes Buch

Ideophones and the Evolution of Language

Beschreibung

This book argues that ideophones provide the 'missing link' in our knowledge of how communication has evolved to become the spoken language of today.

Autor

John Haiman is the author of Hua: A Papuan Language of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea (1980), The Rhaeto-Romance Languages (with Paola Beninca, 1992) and Cambodian: Khmer (2011). He pioneered the resurgence of interest in iconicity in language with Natural Syntax (Cambridge, 1985), and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship 1989 for the study of sarcasm, which resulted in his book Talk Is Cheap (1998).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 720g
• ISBN-13: 9781107069602
• ISBN-10: 1107069602
• Artikelnr.: 48399626