This text provides an introduction to the study of language, including the origins of language, the development of writing, animals and human language, sounds and sound patterns and language and the brain.
Languages
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Auteur:Sommaire:What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, considered the essential text in its...
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Auteur:Neuhaus, MareikeSommaire:In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to...
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Auteur:Borrows, Lindsay KeegitahSommaire:Otter's Journey employs the Anishinaabe tradition of storytelling to explore how Indigenous language revitalization can inform the emerging field of Indigenous legal revitalization. Indigenous languages and laws need bodies to live in....
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Auteur:Sommaire:This volume presents six alternative approaches to studying second language acquisition -- 'alternative' in the sense that they contrast with and/or complement the cognitivism pervading the field. All six approaches -- sociocultural,...
