Stephen R. Anderson, Languages: A very Short Introduction

Divided into eight chapters, Languages provides information about some of the political and social issues in the study of languages, understood as means of communication between human beings. The case for animal languages is not made here, nor does the book introduce artificial or computing languag...

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Glavni autor: Joshi, Madhura
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Jezik:Anglais
Izdano: Lexis 2019
Online pristup:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Sažetak:Divided into eight chapters, Languages provides information about some of the political and social issues in the study of languages, understood as means of communication between human beings. The case for animal languages is not made here, nor does the book introduce artificial or computing languages. It is based on discussions and debates from a symposium entitled ‘How Many Languages Are There in the World?’ organised in Seattle in 2004 by the author Stephen R. Anderson, Professor of Lingui...