An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Language And Languages (Penguin Reference Books) - Softcover

Dictionary of Language and Languages, An Encyclopedic (Reference)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 448 pages. Cover creased and wornThe aim of this book is to provide a succinct, accessible and comprehensive g uide to linguistic concepts and names. 'Linguistic' here does not mean the techn ical terminology of linguistic sciences, but language in a more everyday sense. Terms are drawn from the various applied areas of language study, such as langua ge teaching, speech pathology, stylistics, typography, and lexicography, as well as from core topics such as grammar, figures of speech, and basic phonetics. Th e dictionary sets out to answer questions people are likely to ask about languag e, such as 'Which language(s) do they speak in such-a-country' (all the countrie s of the world are included), and 'How many people speak X?' (several hundred la nguages are included). There are entries on 'knowledge about language', and 'LIN C', and the ongoing developments in corpus compilation (COBUILD, British Nationa l Corpus). A great deal of background is given to the language profiles (e.g. ea rly literary history). Pronunciations of language names (and of several other te rms) are given. A small number of entries deal with linguistics, in particular t he main schools of thought and basic concepts (e. g. competence, morphology). Ab breviations are included. In all, there are almost 2750 entries and there are c. 5000 cross-references, to give readers a wide range of access points to the inf ormation. Carefully chosen illustrations show things that cannot easily be expre ssed in text, such as alphabets. A selection of cartoons reinforces the author's conviction that language study can be fun. Artikel-Nr. 2074t

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