How language works - David Crystal
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- Data: 13:42 08-11-2018
- Kategoria: Językoznawstwo, nauka o literaturze
Longtime language writer and linguistics professor Crystal (The Stories of English, 2004) offers a well-organized, thoroughly comprehensive guide to language and communication in 73 short chapters. The passionate word enthusiast addresses every aspect of language, including how we learn to speak, read, and write; the physiology behind the formation of speech sounds; how we choose what to say; how gestures and tone of voice impact communication; how the brain handles language; and how language tells us where we are from. After beginning with spoken and written language, Crystal moves on to sign language, language structure, discourse, dialects, language families, and multilingualism. The book also includes diagrams of the human tongue, ear, and brain; a chart of Egyptian hieroglyphs over time; and illustrations of finger spelling. Although its size and subject matter may suggest otherwise, this volume is aimed at and written for general readers, and Crystal makes for an especially genial guide. Whether expressing his fair-minded assessment of the prescriptive-descriptive debate or knowledgably discussing the connection between dialects and social status, he proves to be both accessible and informative.
| słowa kluczowe | język | ||
| język | angielski | ||
| kategoria | językoznawstwo, nauka o literaturze | ||
| liczba stron | 500 | ||
| ISBN | 978-0-141-01552-1 | ||
| data wydania | 2007 (data przybliżona) |
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