Language through the looking glass : exploring language and linguistics / Marina Yaguello ; adapted from the original French by Trevor A. Le V. Harris and the author
- Bib ID:
- 2210258
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Yaguello, Marina, 1944-
- Description:
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- Oxford [U.K.] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
- viii, 174 p. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0198700059
- 0198700067
- Summary:
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Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Marina Yaguello takes the reader on an unconventional voyage around language, charting the major themes of linguistics on the way. She shows that we can come to an understanding of language in general and of particular languages through exploring the devices of humour, word-games, and poetry-devices which reveal the unconscious linguist in all of us. The result is an entertaining but rigorous introduction to language and linguistics for non-specialists and students alike.
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- Introduction: So, you are a linguist ...
- 1. What Language is For
- 2. The Tower of Babel: Universal characteristics of language
- 3. Pink Elephants: Redundancy at work
- 4. The Canny Canner: The speech chain and its components
- 5. Anti-dis-establish-ment-arian-ism: Words and morphemes
- 6. Did You Say Pig or Fig? The sound systems of languages
- 7. Words as Signs
- 8. A Rose by Any Other Name: Are signs arbitrary or motivated?
- 9. The Incredible Lightness of Meaning: Sense and nonsense
- 10. The House that Jack Built: Competence and performance
- 11. Green Ideas: The boundaries of syntax and semantics
- 12. Murdering Time: Figures of speech
- 13. The Miser and the Prodigal Son: Lexical meaning
- 14. Tweedledum and Tweedledee: The tricks and traps of syntax.
- Notes:
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- Significantly rev. and updated version of the author's Alice au pays du langage.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-167) and index.
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