On Language

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 1565844750
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
Described by the New York Times as "arguably the most important intellectual alive," Noam Chomsky is known throughout the world for his highly influential writings on language and politics. Featuring two of Chomsky's most popular and enduring books in one omnibus volume, On Language contains some of the noted linguist and political critic's most informal and accessible work to date, making it an ideal introduction to his thought. In Part I, Language and Responsibility (1979), Chomsky presents a fascinating self-portrait of his political, moral, and linguistic thinking through a series of interviews with Mitsou Ronat, the noted French linguist. In Part II, Reflections on Language (1975), Chomsky explores the more general implications of the study of language and offers incisive analyses of the controversies among psychologists, philosophers, and linguists over fundamental questions of language.

The Loom of Language

Author: Frederick Bodmer
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393300345
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 724

Book Description
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.

On Language

Author: Joseph Harold Greenberg
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804716130
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 782

Book Description
This is a collection of 37 of the most important, enduring, and influential essays by one of the great linguists of this century, gathered from a wide range of journals and books spanning four decades.

Reflections on Language

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Fontana Press
ISBN: 9780006342991
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 269

Book Description

When Languages Collide

Author: Brian D. Joseph
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 9780814209134
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 396

Book Description

On Language Change

Author: Rudi Keller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134901984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained.

Language and Responsibility

Author: Noam Chomsky
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
The distinguished linguist and controversial political critic combines both aspects of his life and work in this wide-ranging and informative discussion that presents his political, moral, and linguistic views on current issues.

On the Essence of Language

Author: Martin Heidegger
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791462713
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 218

Book Description
This important early Heidegger text sheds new light on his later focus on language.

Garner on Language and Writing

Author: Bryan A. Garner
Publisher: American Bar Association
ISBN: 9781604424454
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 884

Book Description
Since the 1987 appearance of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, Bryan A. Garner has proved to be a versatile and prolific writer on legal-linguistic subjects. This collection of his essays shows both profound scholarship and sharp wit. The essays cover subjects as wide-ranging as learning to write, style, persuasion, contractual and legislative drafting, grammar, lexicography, writing in law school, writing in law practice, judicial writing, and all the literature relating to these diverse subjects.

Language Parasites: Of Phorontology

Author: Sean Braune
Publisher: punctum books
ISBN: 0998531863
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
"What we call "Being" infects us and speaks through us - it treats us as a host to a linguistic and experiential parasite. Ontology - the study of Being - has primarily dealt with human questions regarding Being at the expense of the non-human, inhuman, and posthuman. Language Parasites works against this tendency by offering a "phorontology": a theory of Being inspired by "phoronts," which are tiny organisms that engage in parasitic migration (lice, mites, ticks, fleas, etc.). What is the Being of a parasite and how can that complicated non-human ontology influence human definitions of Being? Gradually, the anthropocentric distinction of subject and object fades away in favor of the emergence of a strange new philosophical entity called the transject, a being that is thrown far afield from the more normative notions of the subject that can be found in Hegel, Kant, Lacan, or even Foucault, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. A 'pataphysical excursion into the intricate world of philosophical ontology, Language Parasites presents the initial discoveries of a much larger project that seeks to redefine the boundaries of Being. This book is the result of a parasitic infection of continental philosophy in which the various parasites of German and French philosophy all meet at one locale for one express purpose: to eat together, feed together, and think together."--Back cover.