Jean Aitchison (UK University of Oxford)

The Articulate Mammal

An Introduction to Psycholinguistics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A classic in its field for almost forty years, The Articulate Mammal is a brilliant introduction to psycholinguistics. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the author.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9780415610186
• ISBN-10: 0415610184
• Artikelnr.: 31301356

Autorenporträt

Jean Aitchison was Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford from 1993 to 2003, and is now an Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. She is the author of numerous books on language and gave the 1996 BBC Reith lectures on the topic of 'The Language Web'.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Preface to the first edition.
Preface to the fifth edition. Introduction 1.The great automatic
grammatizator 2.Animals that try to talk 3.Grandmama's teeth 4.Predestinate
grooves 5.A blueprint in the brain? 6.Chattering children 7.Puzzling it out
8.Celestial unintelligibility 9.The white elephant problem 10.The case of
the missing fingerprint 11.The Cheshire Cat's grin 12.Banker's clerk or
hippopotamus? Suggestions for further reading References
Index