Linguistics

Why It Matters
2. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7515-2
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten

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.

In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, Geoffrey Pullum offers a stimulating account of the many ways in which the study of linguistics 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.

Now updated to include discussion of the outsized impact of rapidly accelerating current events, including large language models, Pullum reveals how linguistics' far-reaching applications (from law to medicine and from developmental psychology to artificial intelligence) are more pertinent than ever.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pullum, Geoffrey K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. What Makes Us Human
2. How Sentences Work
3. Words, Meaning, and Thought
4. Language and Social Life
5. Conversations With Machines
Conclusion

Notes on Further Reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Geoffrey K. Pullum is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh.