The story of language /
| Основен автор: | Pei, Mario, 1901-1978. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Philadelphia :
Lippincott Co.,
c1949.
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| Издание: | [1st ed.] |
| Предмети: | |
| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Story of language. Online version:: Story of language. |
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.