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The story of language /

The late Mario Pei was professor of comparative romance philology at Columbia University, and this book is still one of the few introductions to linguistics that is accessible by the layman. There's not much on Chomskyan transformational grammar and other very technical topics in linguistics, b...

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Основен автор: Pei, Mario, 1901-1978.
Формат: Книга
Език: English
Публикувано: [New York] : New American Library, 1965.
Серия: Mentor book.
Предмети:
Language and languages.
Linguistics.
Съдържание:
  • The history of language
  • Non-linguistic systems of communication
  • Theories of language beginnings
  • The family relationships of language
  • The evolution of language
  • Dialects
  • The saga of place-names
  • The story of personal and family names
  • The language of politeness
  • The history of writing
  • The constituent elements of language
  • The compartments of language
  • The sounds of language
  • Words
  • The structure of language
  • The arrangement of words
  • Semantics and semantic change
  • The international language bank
  • The great language mint
  • Slang, cant, and jargon
  • The esthetics of language
  • The social function of language
  • The indispensability of language
  • Language and religion
  • Language and the family
  • Language and material existence
  • Language and economic relations
  • Language and political institutions
  • Language and superstition
  • Language and intolerance
  • Language and literature
  • Language and science
  • Language, education and literacy
  • The modern spoken tongues
  • The geography of language
  • King's English and American language
  • Scandinavian, Dutch and German
  • The Romance tongues
  • The Slavic languages
  • Other Indo-European languages
  • Possible relatives of Indo-European
  • The Far Eastern tongues
  • The world's other tongues
  • Problems of language learning
  • "Easy" and "difficult" languages
  • The traditional way
  • The innovators
  • The reaction : in defense of grammar
  • The ideal way?
  • An international language
  • The translation problem
  • Universality and internationality, limited
  • Universality by artifice
  • Universality via linguistic imperialism
  • It can be done.

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