The 5 Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language And Languages - Softcover

 
9781845531997: The 5 Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language And Languages
Softcover
ISBN 10: 184553199X ISBN 13: 9781845531997
Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages takes a new approach to making accurate and up-to-date knowledge about language accessible in a non-academic way. It consists of some 55-60 chapters, each about 700 words long, adapted from the weekly scripts of a popular NPR series on language. The scripts, contributed by a cross-section of leading professional linguists in America and abroad, address questions like "How many languages are there in the world?" "Should we teach languages in elementary school?" and "How good is machine translation?" They are written with a light touch that has been highly successful in reaching an audience of intelligent non-specialists. The book will preserve that light touch while adding such features as an index (to help readers connect topics touched on in more than one chapter) and suggestions for follow-up reading.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

E. M. Rickerson has a Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley and is Director Emeritus of the award-winning language program at the College of Charleston (S.C.). Formerly a language program director in the U.S. government, he now consults on the development and improvement of language programs at the university level. In 2005 Dr. Rickerson created a radio series on languages ("Talkin' About Talk"), which was broadcast on public and college radio stations -- and on which The 5 Minute Linguist was based. Barry Hilton is a freelance writer/editor and independent scholar living in Maine. He was a member of the editorial board that reviewed the radio scripts on which The 5 Minute Linguist was based. He has travelled and lived in both Europe and Asia, making professional use of Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German in a variety of jobs. He describes himself as an "armchair philologist and recovering polyglot."

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Verlag
Equinox Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
184553199X
ISBN 13 
9781845531997
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
273
Herausgeber
Rickerson E. M., Hilton Barry
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