The language builder : an essay on the human signature in linguistic morphogenesis /
Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers and hearers, their interactions, and their relationship to the world ar...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins,
1993.
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Colección: | Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ;
v. 94. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Linguistics, as a social science, should have something to teach us about humans as social beings. However, modern grammatical theories regard languages as autonomous systems, so these theories are little concerned with speakers and hearers, their interactions, and their relationship to the world around them. Further, these theories tend toward excessive concern with methodology and the properties of linguistic systems, neglecting, in fact, the languages themselves and those who use them in everyday life. Even the shift toward cognitive approaches, promising for their new insights into the bra. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-263) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9789027277008 9027277001 1283312999 9781283312998 9786613312990 6613312991 |
ISSN: | 0304-0763 ; |