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Series: Routledge Communication Series
Responding to the reassertion of orality in the twentieth century in the form of electronic media such as the telegraph, film, video, computers, and television, this unique volume traces the roots of classical rhetoric in the modern world. Welch begins by changing the current view of classical...
Published May 31st 1991 by Routledge
The second edition of this invaluable introductory text takes account of developments in syntactic studies. Dealing with the whole range of syntax, this book explains, in a lucid and approachable way, why linguists have adopted certain solutions to problems and not others. This book introduces the...
Published May 15th 1991 by Routledge
Rather than offering variations in "world view" as evidence for linguistic relativity, this book views language related differences in terms of the facility with which information is processed. Distinctive perceptual, memory, and neurolinguistic aspects of the Chinese language are discussed, as is...
Published April 30th 1991 by Psychology Press
For over fifty years the name of Eric Partridge has been synonymous with slang in the English language. This edition, based on his famous volume, makes it fully relevant to the language of today....
Published April 24th 1991 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Communication Series
Challenging current work in communication and social psychology that assumes face-to-face interaction can be adequately understood without attending to discourse expression, this volume examines how people's goals, concerns, and intentions can be related to discourse expression. The text discusses...
Published March 31st 1991 by Routledge
Using a blend of statistical analysis with field survery among native Irish speakers, Reg Hindley explores the reasons for the decline of the Irish language and investigates the relationships between geographical environment and language retention. He puts Irish into a broader European context as a...
Published March 6th 1991 by Routledge
Series: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
First published in 1991...
Published February 28th 1991 by Routledge
Detailing more than one hundred years of research including the most current developments, CHILDES/BIB serves as a quick reference to literature on child language and language disorders. The coverage includes not only the field of language acquisition, but also bilingualism, second language...
Published December 31st 1990 by Psychology Press
Language and Philosophical Problems investigates problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language. It deals in particular with problems which are connected with our tendency to be misled by certain prevailing views and preconceptions about language. Philosophical...
Published December 19th 1990 by Routledge
Series: History of Linguistic Thought
Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a philosopher of language are arguably the two most important figures in the development of twentieth-century linguistic thought. By pointing out what their ideas have in common, in spite of emanating from very different intellectual sources, this study...
Published October 24th 1990 by Routledge
