THE SOCIAL ART 2E: Language and Its Uses - Couverture souple

MACAULAY, Ronald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0195187962 ISBN 13 : 9780195187960

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters, topics like language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others.

In this revised and expanded second edition, Macaulay brings the book up to date with the last decade of progress in linguistics, adding more American examples, and updating bibliographies. Two new chapters have been added, on theories of language development and on the evolution of language. The Social Art is perfect for general readers and students who want to learn about what it is that linguists do.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ronald K. S. Macaulay is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Pitzer College. He is the author of Language, Social Class and Education (1977), Locating Dialect in Discourse (1991), Standards and Variation in Urban Speech (1997), and Talk that Counts: Age, Gender, and Social Class Differences in Discourse (OUP, 2005). The first edition of The Social Art was published in 1995.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195187962
• ISBN 13: 9780195187960
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 257
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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