Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Language and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Russia
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This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with their different favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and -- worse still -- lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book demonstrates that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. In an unconventional way Michael Fortescue introduces his subject as a kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a useful commentary on the state of the discipline today.
Michael Fortescue is Professor of Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of 'Language realtions across Bering Strait: reappraising the archaeological and linguistic evidence' (London 1998) and 'Pattern and Process: a Whiteheadian Perspective on Linguistics' (Amsterdam/Philadelphia 2001).
- ISBN-13
- 9788772897066
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Imprint
- Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)
- Publication date
- 1 February 2002
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 391
- Dimensions
- 165 x 245 mm
- Illustrations
- illus
- Language
- English
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