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Linguistics

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Linguistics

By Geoffrey K. Pullum

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About the book

Language is the medium in which we humans compose our thoughts, explain our thinking, construct our arguments, and create works of literature. Without language, societies as complex as ours could not exist. Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating introduction to the many ways in which linguistics, as the scientific study of language, matters. With its close relationships to psychology, education, philosophy, and computer science, the subject has a compelling human story to tell about the ways in wh...Show more

Historical and comparative linguistics

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ISBN

9781509530755

Publisher

Polity Press

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Linguistics

Format

Hardcover

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