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Simmel, Edith

 
9783639156348: Insufficiencies of Language: A memetic approach to language?speaker conflicts
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 363915634X ISBN 13 : 9783639156348
Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Why is it that we talk so much? Why can't we influence the way we speak and why do we use swearwords even when we don't want to? These and other questions are the starting point of this book. So called bad language is dealt with, as is politeness, and possible reasons for our use of certain types of language like medical or legal jargon are investigated. From a biological point of view these phenomena seem to be rather harmful to the speaker sometimes, but once we adopt a memetic point of view they seem to make perfect sense. So after a brief introduction into both evolutionary biology and memetics, Edith Simmel explores certain peculiarities of language and discusses possible explanations for our speaking behaviours.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Why is it that we talk so much? Why can't we influence the way we speak and why do we use swearwords even when we don't want to? These and other questions are the starting point of this book. So called bad language is dealt with, as is politeness, and possible reasons for our use of certain types of language like medical or legal jargon are investigated. From a biological point of view these phenomena seem to be rather harmful to the speaker sometimes, but once we adopt a memetic point of view they seem to make perfect sense. So after a brief introduction into both evolutionary biology and memetics, Edith Simmel explores certain peculiarities of language and discusses possible explanations for our speaking behaviours.

Biographie de l'auteur

Edith Simmel was born in 1979 and finished her studies at the university of Vienna in 2005. She currently teaches English and maths to adults.

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Éditeur
VDM Verlag
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
363915634X
ISBN 13 
9783639156348
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
116
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Personne responsable
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