Linguistics

Why It Matters
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5095-3076-2
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 140 Seiten, Format (B × H): 121 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 173 g

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 which different societies see and describe the world, and its far-reaching applications range from law to medicine and from developmental psychology to artificial intelligence.

Introducing Polity’s Why It Matters series: In these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pullum, Geoffrey K

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chapter 1: What Makes Us Human

Chapter 2: How Sentences Work

Chapter 3: Words, Meaning and Thought

Chapter 4: Language and Social Life

Chapter 5: Machines That Understand Us

Conclusion

Notes on Further Reading

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey K. Pullum is a world-famous linguist and Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and a regular contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is best-known for his seminal book The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, co-authored with Rodney Huddleston.