Wallace Chafe

Broschiertes Buch

Thought-Based Linguistics

Beschreibung

Discusses the hotly debated subject of the extent to which the structure of language is inseparable from thought. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the fields of semantics, pragmatics, the philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics.

Autor

Wallace Chafe is Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research has focused in part on the Seneca language in New York and the Caddo language in Oklahoma. He has investigated differences between speaking and writing; the functions of prosody in spoken language; the emotion underlying laughter and humor, ways in which language can be beautiful; and relations between language and thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 312g
• ISBN-13: 9781108431569
• ISBN-10: 1108431569
• Artikelnr.: 59982092