Language Through the Looking Glass - Exploring Language and Linguistics

Informationen zum Autor Marina Yaguello is Professor and Chair of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Paris &-Denis Diderot. She has been Visiting Professor in London and in Dakar and has lectured all over North America, Europe, and in many African countries. She has written nine other books about language and linguistics, including Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary languages and their inventors (Athlone Press). She specializes in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface. Klappentext What can wordplay--as understood in the broadest sense--teach us about language! its functions! characteristics! structure! and workings? Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point! Yanguello takes the reader on a vivid and unconventional voyage into the world(s) of language! charting the major themes of linguistics along the way. This is an entertaining and original introduction to the nature of language that will appeal to students and teachers alike. Zusammenfassung What does wordplay -- in the broadest sense -- teach us about language, its functions, its characteristics, its structure, and how it works? Marina Yaguello investigates how language is used in word games and literature, and how this relates to linguistic theory. This book is an excellent and entertaining introduction to language for students and non-specialists.

Product details

• Authors: Marina Yaguello, Yaguello Marina, Marina Yanguello
• Assisted by: Trevor Harris (Translation), Trevor A. Harris (Translation), Trevor M. Harris (Translation), Trevor A. Le V. Harris (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1998
• EAN: 9780198700050
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870005-0
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, Historical & comparative linguistics, Usage & grammar guides, Usage and grammar guides, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling & Vocabulary, Historical and comparative linguistics