Category: Foreign Language Study Reference

By Salah El-Ghobashy, Hilary Wise

ISBN-10: 0563213787

ISBN-13: 9780563213789

ISBN-10: 0563399503

ISBN-13: 9780563399506

By Lynne Hansen

ISBN-10: 0195123042

ISBN-13: 9780195123043

ISBN-10: 0195352645

ISBN-13: 9780195352641

ISBN-10: 1423760123

ISBN-13: 9781423760122

This quantity introduces the research of language attrition--the forgetting of language. during this first assortment dedicated to moment language attrition, the individuals specialise in contexts of loss the place jap is both the attriting language, or the changing language. Bringing jointly examine to verify past hypotheses within the box, this e-book bargains new theoretical and useful insights for these drawn to language swap.

By Jean-Pierre Kahane

ISBN-10: 270566193X

ISBN-13: 9782705661939

By Salvatore Spera

ISBN-10: 8842023078

ISBN-13: 9788842023074

By Dirmid R. F. Collis

ISBN-10: 9231026615

ISBN-13: 9789231026614

By Roy Harris

ISBN-10: 0415052254

ISBN-13: 9780415052252

Saussure as a linguist and Wittgenstein as a thinker of language are arguably the 2 most crucial figures within the improvement of twentieth-century linguistic idea. by way of stating what their principles have in universal, inspite of emanating from very diversified highbrow assets, this learn breaks new flooring.

By Adam Makkai, Alan K. Melby

ISBN-10: 9027235368

ISBN-13: 9789027235367

This quantity comprises papers by means of a lot of influencial linguists, written as a tribute to the paintings of Rulon S. Wells. the quantity is subdivided into sections at the Philosophy of Language, Phonology, Syntax, ancient and Typological Linguistics, and Diachronic and Synchronic Derivation.

By Thomas Stephen Szasz

ISBN-10: 0385045131

ISBN-13: 9780385045131

If, because the previous testomony tells us, the 1st or unique Sin was once the information of excellent and evil, then the information of transparent speech was once the "Second Sin," At Babel, God punished guy for this transgression with the Divine Confusion, and we've got been deceptive one another ever on account that. Dr. Thomas Szasz believes that it truly is this confusion of language that has produced a lot of the inhumanity, intolerance, and outright stupidity which this day have an effect on every thing from our politics to our intercourse lives. this is often Dr. Szasz's attempt to dispel a few of this confusion. it's a selection of penetrating, clean, and infrequently funny innovations, starting from intercourse and the relations to medications, schizophrenia, and psychiatry. for instance, Dr. Szasz issues out that once somebody acts as though he have been chatting with God we are saying he's praying, but if he acts as though God have been chatting with him we are saying he has "schizophrenia" - and we glance to clinical technology to "cure" him of his "mental illness." different excerpts from the second one Sin: previously, american citizens fees with homicide have been thought of blameless until eventually confirmed responsible; now they're thought of insane until eventually confirmed sane. Masturbation: the first sexual intercourse of mankind. within the 19th century, it was once a sickness; within the 20th, it's a treatment. Treating dependancy to heroin with methadone is like treating dependancy to Scotch with Bourbon.

By András Róna-Tas

ISBN-10: 3447022736

ISBN-13: 9783447022736

By Sam McCarter, Judith Ash

ISBN-10: 0951958240

ISBN-13: 9780951958247