The language web : the power and problem of words / Jean Aitchison.
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TextLanguage: English Series: Reith lecturesPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. Description: xiv, 139 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 0521573858 (hardback); 9780521573856; 0521574757 (pbk.); 9780521574754Subject(s): Language and languagesDDC classification: 400 LOC classification: P106 | .A34 1997Online resources: Sample text | Table of contents | Publisher description | WorldCat details Summary: Summary:
Language is like a vast spider's web. In this volume Jean Aitchison explores different facets of this web. She begins with the cobweb of false worries which surrounds language. She then discusses how language evolved in the human species, how children acquire it, and how educated English speakers remember 50,000 or more words. Finally, she argues that people are right to be concerned about language, though not in the ways traditionally assumed. This is the text of the 1996 BBC Reith lectures, slightly revised for publication, with illustrations and full references, and an Afterword which looks at the reception of the lectures.
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| 400.71 MAL 1998 Lessons from nothing : | 400.71 MCF 2007 Five minute activities for young learners / | 400.76 MCL 2000 Language testing / | 400 AIL 1997 The language web : | 400 AIL 1997 The language web : | 400 HIR 1999 Reflections on language / | 400 TRL 1999 Language : |
Rev. ed. of the 1996 BBC Reith lectures.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-133) adn index.
Summary:
Language is like a vast spider's web. In this volume Jean Aitchison explores different facets of this web. She begins with the cobweb of false worries which surrounds language. She then discusses how language evolved in the human species, how children acquire it, and how educated English speakers remember 50,000 or more words. Finally, she argues that people are right to be concerned about language, though not in the ways traditionally assumed. This is the text of the 1996 BBC Reith lectures, slightly revised for publication, with illustrations and full references, and an Afterword which looks at the reception of the lectures.
English
Sagar Shahanawaz
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