About this title: Where did human language come from? How many languages are there? How do we acquire our first language or learn a second one? The highly acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal answers these and other questions about language. From hieroglyphics to trucker talk, from Shakespeare in pidgin to sneezing in Tongan, this is a stimulating and richly illustrated guide to the variety, structure, history and theory of language. David Crystal not only conveys the intrinsic fascination of the subject, but also its enormous complexity. The visual dimension of the encyclopedia ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521424431ISBN:0521424437
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1987
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Date Published: 1991
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1991
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1991
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Binding: Softcover
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Binding: Softcover
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Binding: Softcover
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"I have to admit that I have not read every single word on every single page, cover to cover, but this is more of a sit and browse book. All I can say is that if you have a love for languages like I do this is a wonderful, wonderful book!"
"This book is must for people who are interested in their language. Informative and exciting, teaching many interesting and knowledgeable things about language."
"En la Enciclopedia del Lenguaje de la Universidad de Cambridge, David Crystal, refiriendose a las distintas disciplinas implicadas en el analisis del discurso, en las llamadas ciencias humanas y sociales, ofrece una lista de 15 campos interdisciplinares, en los cuales los saberes linguisticos se articulan con los de otras disciplinas:
1) Antropologia linguistica (siglo XX) (Duranti)
2) Sociologia (1950) (Goffman)
3) Psicolinguistica (1980) (Luria & Vigotsky)
4) Filosofia del lenguaje (1953) (Wittgenstein)
5) Etnografia de la comunicacion (1960) (Gumperz & Hymes)
6) Etnometodologia (Garfinkel)
7) Interaccionismo simbolico (Goffman)
8) Analisis de la conversacion (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson)
9) Sociolinguistica interaccional (Bourdieu & Foucault)
10) Pragmatica (Austin & Searle)
11) Linguistica funcional (Jakobson, Circulo de Praga & Halliday)
12) Linguistica textual (Teun van Dijk)
13) Teoria de la enunciacion (Bajtin)
14) Principio de cooperacion (Grice)
15) Teoria de la relevancia o pertinencia (Sperber & Wilson)"
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