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Questions About Language

What Everyone Should Know About Language in the 21st Century

Herausgeber: Bauer, Laurie; Calude, Andreea S.

Beschreibung

Questions about Language sets out to answer, in a readily available format, questions which journalists and members of the public ask linguists all the time. Covering frequently asked questions about language, this is essential reading for both students new to language and linguistics and the interested general reader.

Autor

Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is the author of over twenty books including The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology (2013), which won the LSA's Leonard Bloomfield Prize. In 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities Medal. Andreea S. Calude is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She has a background in mathematics and linguistics and researches (spoken) grammar, language evolution, loanwords and just about any quantitative language-related question she can get data on. She has authored the TED ED Lesson "Does Grammar Matter?".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780367175009
• ISBN-10: 0367175002
• Artikelnr.: 69938883