About this title: Where did human language come from? How many languages are there? How do we acquire our first language or learn a second one? The highly acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal answers these and other questions about language. From hieroglyphics to trucker talk, from Shakespeare in pidgin to sneezing in Tongan, this is a ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521424431ISBN:0521424437
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521424431ISBN:0521424437
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521424431ISBN:0521424437
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Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780521424431ISBN:0521424437
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 470 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: West Nyack, New York, U.S.A. : Cambridge Univ Pr, 1991, West Nyack, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780521424431ISBN:0521424437
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. David Crystal's "Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language" has been universally acclaimed as the most exciting, readable and comprehensivebook on language ever written. With over 600 maps, diagrams and photographs, the book is a unique source of information on the variety, structure, history, and theory of language. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780521424431ISBN:0521424437
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. vii, 472 pp. Very light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780521424431ISBN:0521424437
Description: Fine. No Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. vii, 472 pp. Very light rubbing to the cover edges. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean. read more
"This book is must for people who are interested in their language. Informative and exciting, teaching many interesting and knowledgeable things about language."
"En la Enciclopedia del Lenguaje de la Universidad de Cambridge, David Crystal, refiriendose a las distintas disciplinas implicadas en el analisis del discurso, en las llamadas ciencias humanas y sociales, ofrece una lista de 15 campos interdisciplinares, en los cuales los saberes linguisticos se articulan con los de otras disciplinas:
1) Antropologia linguistica (siglo XX) (Duranti)
2) Sociologia (1950) (Goffman)
3) Psicolinguistica (1980) (Luria & Vigotsky)
4) Filosofia del lenguaje (1953) (Wittgenstein)
5) Etnografia de la comunicacion (1960) (Gumperz & Hymes)
6) Etnometodologia (Garfinkel)
7) Interaccionismo simbolico (Goffman)
8) Analisis de la conversacion (Sacks, Schegloff & Jefferson)
9) Sociolinguistica interaccional (Bourdieu & Foucault)
10) Pragmatica (Austin & Searle)
11) Linguistica funcional (Jakobson, Circulo de Praga & Halliday)
12) Linguistica textual (Teun van Dijk)
13) Teoria de la enunciacion (Bajtin)
14) Principio de cooperacion (Grice)
15) Teoria de la relevancia o pertinencia (Sperber & Wilson)"
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