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The Adventure of English: The Biography of Languageby Melvyn BraggISBN 1559707844 (1-55970-784-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventure of English: The Biography of Language'Book summary:English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years. In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. The Adventure of English is not only an enthralling story of power, religion and trade, but also the story of people, and how their day-to-day lives shaped and continue to change the extraordinary language that is English. [via]
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Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-european Originsby Colin RenfrewISBN 0521386756 (0-521-38675-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-european Origins'Book summary:In this book Colin Renfrew directs remarkable new light on the links between archaeology and language, looking specifically at the puzzling similarities that are apparent across the Indo-European family of ancient languages, from Anatolia and Ancient Persia, across Europe and the Indian subcontinent, to regions as remote as Sinkiang in China. Professor Renfrew initiates an original synthesis between modern historical linguistics and the new archaeology of cultural process, boldly proclaiming that it is time to reconsider questions of language origins and what they imply about ethnic affiliation--issues seriously discredited by the racial theorists of the 1920s and 1930s and, as a result, largely neglected since. Challenging many familiar beliefs, he comes to a new and persuasive conclusion: that primitive forms of the Indo-European language were spoken across Europe some thousands of years earlier than has previously been assumed. [via]
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Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-european Origins: ISBN 0521386756 (0-521-38675-6)
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The Concise Dictionary of Linguisticsby Peter MatthewsISBN 0198610505 (0-19-861050-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguisticsby P.H. MatthewsISBN 0192800086 (0-19-280008-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Don't Think Of An Elephant!/ How Democrats And Progressives Can Win: Know Your Values And Frame The Debate The Essential Guide For Progressivesby George Lakoff, Don Hazen, Howard DeanISBN 1931498717 (1-931498-71-7)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Think Of An Elephant!/ How Democrats And Progressives Can Win: Know Your Values And Frame The Debate The Essential Guide For Progressives'Book summary:In the first of his three debates with George W. Bush, 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry argued against the war in Iraq not by directly condemning it but by citing the various ways in which airport and commercial shipping security had been jeopardized due to the war's sizable price tag. In so doing, he re-framed the war issue to his advantage while avoiding discussing it in the global terrorism terms favored by President Bush. One possible reason for this tactic could have been that Kerry familiarized himself with the influential linguist George Lakoff, who argues in Don't Think of an Elephant that much of the success the Republican Party can be attributed to a persistent ability to control the language of key issues and thus position themselves in favorable terms to voters. While Democrats may have valid arguments, Lakoff points out they are destined to lose when they and the news media accept such nomenclature as "pro-life," "tax relief," and "family values," since to argue against such inherently positive terminology necessarily casts the arguer in a negative light. Lakoff offers recommendations for how the progressive movement can regain semantic equity by repositioning their arguments, such as countering the conservative call for "Strong Defense" with a call for "A Stronger America" (curiously, one of the key slogans of the Kerry camp). Since the book was published during the height of the presidential campaign, Lakoff was unable to provide an analytical perspective on that race. He does, however, apply the notion of rhetorical framing devices to the 2003 California recall election in an insightful analysis of the Schwarzenegger victory. Don't Think of an Elephant is a bit rambling, overexplaining some concepts while leaving others underexplored, but it provides a compelling linguistic analysis of political campaigning. --John Moe [via]
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English Grammar: A Generative Perspectiveby Liliane Haegeman, Jacqueline GueronISBN 0631188398 (0-631-18839-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Grammar: A Generative Perspective'Book summary:This book is intended primarily for undergraduate students of English, though it will also be useful for undergraduates in linguistics focusing on English. It shows how a restricted set of principles can account for a wide range of the phenomena of English syntax.
While the main focus of the book is empirical, it introduces important theoretical concepts: theta theory, X-bar theory, case theory, locality, binding theory, economy, full interpretation, functional projections. In doing so it prepares the student for more advanced theoretical work. The authors integrate many recent insights into the nature of syntactic structure into their discussion. They present information in a gradual way: hypotheses developed in early chapters are reviewed and modified in subsequent ones. The authors also pay attention to the relation between structure and interpretation and to language variation, and particularly to register variation. They include a wide range of diverse exercises, giving the student an opportunity for creative individual work on English. [via]More editions of English Grammar: A Generative Perspective:
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Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen Kingby Tim Underwood, Chuck MillerISBN 0452255279 (0-452-25527-9)
Softcover, Plume
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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processingby Christopher D. Manning, Hinrich SchutzeISBN 0262133601 (0-262-13360-1)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing'Book summary:Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications.
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Frontier Lawmenby Lee PaulISBN 0965792951 (0-9657929-5-1)
Softcover, Jona Books
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The Grail Treeby Jonathan GashISBN 0140230157 (0-14-023015-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax And Other Irreverent Essays on the Study of Languageby Geoffrey K. PullumISBN 0226685349 (0-226-68534-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Guided Meditation: Creative Visualization for Generating Energy and Managing Stressby Gary Michael Smith, Robert Edward FussellISBN 0965838048 (0-9658380-4-8)
Hardcover, Chatgris Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guided Meditation: Creative Visualization for Generating Energy and Managing Stress'Book summary:1997 W.W Norton & Company jumbo trade paperback, 7th printing. ISBN:9780965838047. Explains why we feel the way we do-control of emotions, thoughts and limbs in the control center also called the brain. [via]
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A History of the English Languageby Albert C. Baugh, Thomas CableISBN 0130151661 (0-13-015166-1)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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How the Mind Worksby Steven PinkerISBN 0393318486 (0-393-31848-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How the Mind Works'Book summary:Why do fools fall in love? Why does a man's annual salary, on average, increase $600 with each inch of his height? When a crack dealer guns down a rival, how is he just like Alexander Hamilton, whose face is on the ten-dollar bill? How do optical illusions function as windows on the human soul? Cheerful, cheeky, occasionally outrageous MIT psychologist Steven Pinker answers all of the above and more in his marvelously fun, awesomely informative survey of modern brain science. Pinker argues that Darwin plus canny computer programs are the key to understanding ourselves--but he also throws in apt references to Star Trek, Star Wars, The Far Side, history, literature, W. C. Fields, Mozart, Marilyn Monroe, surrealism, experimental psychology, and Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty and his 888 children. If How the Mind Works were a rock show, tickets would be scalped for $100. This book deserved its spot as Number One on bestseller lists. It belongs on a short shelf alongside such classics as Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, by Daniel C. Dennett, and The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology, by Robert Wright. Pinker's startling ideas pop out as dramatically as those hidden pictures in a Magic Eye 3D stereogram poster, which he also explains in brilliantly lucid prose. [via]
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How to Do Things With Wordsby J.L. AustinISBN 0674411528 (0-674-41152-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Do Things With Words'Book summary:This work sets out Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts for at least the last ten years of his life. Starting from an exhaustive examination of his already well-known distinction between performative utterances and statements, Austin here finally abandons that distinction, replacing it with a more general theory of 'illocutionary forces' of utterances which has important bearings on a wide variety of philosophical problems. [via]
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In Search of the Indo-Europeans: Language, Archaeology, and Mythby J. P. MalloryISBN 0500276161 (0-500-27616-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Introduction to Government and Binding Theoryby Liliane M.M. HaegemanISBN 0631190678 (0-631-19067-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Government and Binding Theory'Book summary:Since its first publication in 1991 Liliane Haegeman's Introduction to Government and Binding Theory has become established as the most authoritative introduction to the Principles and Parameters approach to syntactic theory. This new edition has been extensively updated throughout. Major structural changes include new chapters on Functional Heads and Head Movement and on Relativized Minimality. Discussions of a number of topics missing from or not paid due attention in the first edition have been integrated or expanded, for example: the structure of small clauses (in chaprer 2), chain formation (in chapter 6), and reconstruction, multiple movement, wh-absorption, Full Interpretation, and expletive replacement (in chapter 9). The copious exercises have been revised to increase potential for creativty and flexibility of approach. New exericases highlight further controversial issues.
In short, this book offers a complete, updated introduction to the current state of Government and Binding Theory, suitable for readers with some basic knowledge of generative linguistics. [via]More editions of Introduction to Government and Binding Theory:
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An Introduction to Sociolinguisticsby Ronald WardhaughISBN 140513559X (1-4051-3559-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Introduction to Sociolinguistics'Book summary:Since it first appeared more than fifteen years ago, Ronald Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguistics has been an immensely popular textbook for courses in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language.
- Provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics that reflects new developments in the field
- Features revisions and updates throughout the text, further reading sections, exercises, and references
- Offers continuity and compatibility with the third edition
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- Provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics that reflects new developments in the field
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognitionby Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwenISBN 015601159X (0-15-601159-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition'Book summary:Describing Umberto Eco as a writer is like describing the platypus as an animal. What do readers expect when they see the author's name on a book jacket? It's a tricky question to answer, given his range and versatility: he has produced studies of semiotics, children's books, medieval history, essays on contemporary culture, and, of course, novels--most notably The Name of the Rose and The Island of the Day Before. So first, a word of warning. Anyone familiar with Eco the novelist or essayist might well be dismayed by Kant and the Platypus, for this new book returns to his preoccupations of the 1960s and 1970s--to semiotics and cognitive semantics. As such, it can be a daunting volume (the initial chapter, for example, riffs on the numerous philosophical concepts of being). And second, a word of encouragement: this is a wonderful engagement with the issues of language itself. Even as he beckons the reader into one linguistic thicket after another, Eco always keeps a commonsensical perspective, using stories to explicate the knottiest concepts.
Why did Marco Polo describe the rhinoceros as a type of unicorn? Why couldn't 18th-century observers figure out how to classify the duck-billed platypus? Given a dictionary or encyclopedia definition of a mouse, how easy would it be to identify one if we had never seen one before? These are some of the examples that Eco uses to explore the ways in which we see and describe the world--the ways, that is, in which cultures develop taxonomies. If you want to know "why we can tell an elephant from an armadillo," or why mirrors do not in fact reverse images, this book will tell you. In fact, it will also tell you why you know what I am talking about when I say "this book." Got it? No? Then get it. --Burhan Tufail [via]
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Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speechby Edward SapirISBN 0156482339 (0-15-648233-9)
Softcover, Harcourt
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Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lecturesby Noam ChomskyISBN 0262530708 (0-262-53070-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguisticsby Ohio State University Department of Linguistics, Wai Yi Peggy WongISBN 0814251285 (0-8142-5128-5)
Softcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Files: Materials for an Introduction to Language and Linguistics'Book summary:aperback: 541 pages Publisher: Ohio State University Press; 9 edition (April 14, 2004) Language: English ISBN-10: 0814251285 ISBN-13: 978-0814251287 Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews) Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #576,707 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) [via]
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Language in Thought and Actionby Alan R. Hayakawa, Samuel Ichiy-E HayakawaISBN 0155501208 (0-15-550120-8)
Softcover, Heinle
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language in Thought and Action'Book summary:In an era when communication has become increasingly diverse and complex, this classic work on semanticsnow fully revised and updateddistills the relationship between language and those who use it.
Renowned professor and former U.S. Senator S. I. Hayakawa discusses the role of language in human life, the many functions of language, and how languagesometimes without our knowingshapes our thinking in this engaging and highly respected book. Provocative and erudite, it examines the relationship between language and racial and religious prejudice; the nature and dangers of advertising from a linguistic point of view; and, in an additional chapter called The Empty Eye, the content, form, and hidden message of television, from situation comedies to news coverage to political advertising. [via]
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Language in Thought and Actionby Samuel Ichiy-E HayakawaISBN 0155501186 (0-15-550118-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Language: Its Structure and Useby Edward FineganISBN 0155001221 (0-15-500122-1)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language: Its Structure and Use'Book summary:Language: Its Structure and Use 3/e is the second best-selling text in the introduction-to-linguistics market, behind our own Fromkin. Each of the fifteen chapters includes detailed coverage of its major concepts, illustrated by numerous examples and figures from a wide variety of languages. Finegan is the only introductory linguistics text that is linked to a workbook Frommer 2/e . [via]
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Language Mythsby Peter Trudgill, Laurie BauerISBN 0140260234 (0-14-026023-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Myths'Book summary:The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can't speak or write properly anymore." Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from experts in the fields of language and language development. In this book Laurie Bauer and Peter Trudgill have invited nineteen respected linguists from all over the world to address these "language myths"--showing that they vary from the misconceived to the downright wrong. With essays ranging from "Women Talk Too Much" and "In the Appalachians They Speak Like Shakespeare" to "Italian Is Beautiful, German Is Ugly" and "They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City," Language Myths is a collection that is wide-ranging, entertaining, and authoritative.[via]More editions of Language Myths:
Language Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorfby John B. CarrollISBN 0262730065 (0-262-73006-5)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphologyby Bernard ComrieISBN 0226114333 (0-226-11433-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology'Book summary:Since its first publication, Language Universals and Linguistic Typology has become established as the leading introductory account of one of the most productive areas of linguisticsthe analysis, comparison, and classification of the common features and forms of the organization of languages. Adopting an approach to the subject pioneered by Greenberg and others, Bernard Comrie is particularly concerned with syntactico-semantic universals, devoting chapters to word order, case making, relative clauses, and causative constructions. His book is informed throughout by the conviction that an exemplary account of universal properties of human language cannot restrict itself to purely formal aspects, nor focus on analysis of a single language. Rather, it must also consider language use, relate formal properties to testable claims about cognition and cognitive development, and treat data from a wide range of languages. This second edition has been revised and updated to take full account of new research in universals and typology in the past decade, and more generally to consider how the approach advocated here relates to recent advances in generative grammatical theory.[via]More editions of Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology:
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Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communicationby Robert M. Harnish, Ann K. Farmer, Richard A. Demers, Adrian AkmajianISBN 0262511231 (0-262-51123-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication'Book summary:This popular introductory linguistics text is unique in the way various themes are integrated throughout the book. One primary theme is the question, "How is a speaker's communicative intent recognized?" Rather than treat phonology, phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics as completely separate fields, the text shows how they interact in principled ways. Similarly, language variation and acquisition are informed by results in these fields. The text provides a sound introduction to linguistic methodology while also revealing why people are intrinsically interested in languagethe ultimate puzzle of the human mind.
The fifth edition has been thoroughly revised. Revisions include, but are not limited to, the addition of "selected readings" sections, updated examples, new discussion on the creative nature of neologisms, and the use of IPA as the primary transcription system throughout. This edition also includes an account of the patterns of occurrence of reduced vowels in English. An understanding of these patterns enables the reader to write a phonemic transcription of any English word. [via]More editions of Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication:
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Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communicationby Adrian AkmajianISBN 0262011506 (0-262-01150-6)
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The Linguistics Warsby Randy Allen HarrisISBN 019509834X (0-19-509834-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Linguistics Wars'Book summary:When it was first published in 1957, Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure seemed to be just a logical expansion of the reigning approach to linguistics. Soon, however, there was talk from Chomsky and his associates about plumbing mental structure; then there was a new phonology; and then there was a new set of goals for the field, cutting it off completely from its anthropological roots and hitching it to a new brand of psychology. Rapidly, all of Chomsky's ideas swept the field. While the entrenched linguists were not looking for a messiah, apparently many of their students were. There was a revolution, which colored the field of linguistics for the following decades.
Chomsky's assault on Bloomfieldianism (also known as American Structuralism) and his development of Transformational-Generative Grammar was promptly endorsed by new linguistic recruits swelling the discipline in the sixties. Everyone was talking of a scientific revolution in linguistics, and major breakthroughs seemed imminent, but something unexpected happened--Chomsky and his followers had a vehement and public falling out.
In The Linguistic Wars, Randy Allen Harris tells how Chomsky began reevaluating the field and rejecting the extensions his students and erstwhile followers were making. Those he rejected (the Generative Semanticists) reacted bitterly, while new students began to pursue Chomsky's updated vision of language. The result was several years of infighting against the backdrop of the notoriously prickly sixties.
The outcome of the dispute, Harris shows, was not simply a matter of a good theory beating out a bad one. The debates followed the usual trajectory of most large-scale clashes, scientific or otherwise. Both positions changed dramatically in the course of the dispute--the triumphant Chomskyan position was very different from the initial one; the defeated generative semantics position was even more transformed. Interestingly, important features of generative semantics have since made their way into other linguistic approaches and continue to influence linguistics to this very day. And fairly high up on the list of borrowers is Noam Chomsky himself.
The repercussions of the Linguistics Wars are still with us, not only in the bruised feelings and late-night war stories of the combatants, and in the contentious mood in many quarters, but in the way linguists currently look at language and the mind. Full of anecdotes and colorful portraits of key personalities, The Linguistics Wars is a riveting narrative of the course of an important intellectual controversy, and a revealing look into how scientists and scholars contend for theoretical glory. [via]
Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scriptsby Andrew RobinsonISBN 0071357432 (0-07-135743-2)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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The Minimalist Programby Noam ChomskyISBN 0262531283 (0-262-53128-3)
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A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially Englishby Anthony BurgessISBN 068813789X (0-688-13789-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volumeby Noam Chomsky, Mitsou RonatISBN 1565844750 (1-56584-475-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Phonology in Generative Grammarby Michael KenstowiczISBN 1557864268 (1-55786-426-8)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Phonology in Generative Grammar'Book summary:This book aims to be a comprehensive and up to date introduction to phonological theory and analysis. Presupposing only minimal background in linguistics, this book introduces the basic concepts and principles of phonological analysis and then systematically develops the major innovations in the generative model since Chomsky and Halle's "Sound Patterns of English" (1968), with emphasis on the past ten years. Careful study of the text should enable the student to read the current scholarly literature with critical understanding and some perspective. Some features of the book include a set of exercises reinforcing the basic concepts and principles, illustrations from a variety of languages based on published and unpublished materials, a survey of all the major lines of research in phonological theory and an extensive biography. [via]
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The Professor and the Madmanby Simon WinchesterISBN 0061030228 (0-06-103022-8)
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Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 0060839783 (0-06-083978-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Professor and the Madman: A Tale Of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, 70 years in the making, was an intellectually heroic feat with a twist worthy of the greatest mystery fiction: one of its most valuable contributors was a criminally insane American physician, locked up in an English asylum for murder. British stage actor Simon Jones leads us through this uncommon meeting of minds (the other belonging to self-educated dictionary editor James Murray) at full gallop. Ultimately, it's hard to say which is more remarkable: the facts of this amazingly well-researched story, or the sound of author Simon Winchester's erudite prose. Jones's reading smoothly transports listeners to the 19th century, reminding us why so many brilliant people obsessively set out to catalogue the English language. This unabridged version contains an interview between Winchester and John Simpson, editor of the Oxford dictionary. (Running time: 6.5 hours, 6 cassettes) --Lou Schuler [via]
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The Search for the Perfect Languageby Umberto Eco, James Fentress, Jacques Le GoffISBN 0631205101 (0-631-20510-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Search for the Perfect Language'Book summary:The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an investigation into the history of that idea and of its profound influence on European thought, culture and history.
From the early Dark Ages to the Renaissance it was widely believed that the language spoken in the Garden of Eden was just such a language, and that all current languages were its decadent descendants from the catastrophe of the Fall and at Babel. The recovery of that language would, for theologians, express the nature of divinity, for cabbalists allow access to hidden knowledge and power, and for philosophers reveal the nature of truth. Versions of these ideas remained current in the Enlightenment, and have recently received fresh impetus in attempts to create a natural language for artificial intelligence.
The story that Umberto Eco tells ranges widely from the writings of Augustine, Dante, Descartes and Rousseau, arcane treatises on cabbalism and magic, to the history of the study of language and its origins. He demonstrates the initimate relation between language and identity and describes, for example, how and why the Irish, English, Germans and Swedes - one of whom presented God talking in Swedish to Adam, who replied in Danish, while the serpent tempted Eve in French - have variously claimed their language as closest to the original. He also shows how the late eighteenth-century discovery of a proto-language (Indo-European) for the Aryan peoples was perverted to support notions of racial superiority.
To this subtle exposition of a history of extraordinary complexity, Umberto Eco links the associated history of the manner in which the sounds of language and concepts have been written and symbolized. Lucidly and wittily written, the book is, in sum, a tour de force of scholarly detection and cultural interpretation, providing a series of original perspectives on two thousand years of European History.
The paperback edition of this book is not available through Blackwell outside of North America. [via]
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Serendipities: Language & Lunacyby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0231111347 (0-231-11134-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serendipities: Language & Lunacy'Book summary:The multitalented Umberto Eco--novelist, critic, and literary theorist--turns his attention to the history of linguistics. In linguistics, as in the other sciences, Eco explains, there are serendipities: "Even the most lunatic experiments can produce strange side effects, stimulating research that proves perhaps less amusing but scientifically more serious." In his earlier book The Search for the Perfect Language, for example, he discussed the project of discovering the language spoken before the collapse of the Tower of Babel. Although misconceived, the project by chance led to advances in mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, and even world peace--the goal of artificial languages like Esperanto and the unfortunately named Volapük. In the five essays in Serendipities, Eco explores some related serendipitous episodes in the history of linguistics; as always, his characteristic blend of playfulness and erudition is bound to be irresistible to any lover of language.
The first essay, "The Force of Falsity," discusses false documents with momentous repercussions, such as the letter of Prester John, which encouraged European explorers and conquerors to seek its supposed author, the Christian ruler of a distant and fantastically wealthy land. In the second essay, Eco considers Dante's relation to the idea of the perfect language. The third essay discusses early misinterpretations of Egyptian, Chinese, and Mexican ideograms. The Jesuit savant Athanasius Kircher, for example, devoted page upon page to mystical interpretations of a hieroglyph that later turned out to represent nothing more profound than the Greek letter lambda. The remaining two essays are devoted to single authors: "The Language of the Austral Land" concerns Gabriel de Foigny's instructive parody of contemporary attempts to devise the perfect language, while "The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre" endeavors, with indifferent success, to make sense of the counterrevolutionary Savoyard's musings on the nature of language. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognitionby James H. Martin, Nigel Ward, Dan Jurafsky, Andrew Kehler, Keith Vander LindenISBN 0130950696 (0-13-095069-6)
Hardcover, Prentice Hall
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The Story of Languageby Mario PeiISBN 0452008700 (0-452-00870-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Study of Languageby George YuleISBN 0521543207 (0-521-54320-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Study of Language'Book summary:This revised and updated edition incorporates many changes that reflect developments in language study over the past decade, including a new chapter on pragmatics, and an expansion of the chapter on semantics. There are additional sections on speech recognition systems, sign languages, women's and men's language, input in language learning, and several other topics. The Study Questions and Discussion Topics following each chapter have also been thoroughly revised, with the addition of more than 30 new tasks for students; and the Further Reading sections have been revised, updated and expanded. The new edition also has many more illustrations, examples, and quotes from a wide range of commentators, from Groucho Marx to Gary Larson. The presentation retains the clear and lively style which made the first edition a hugely popular introduction to the study of language. [via]
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionaryby Simon WinchesterISBN 0140271287 (0-14-027128-7)
Softcover, Penguin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary'Book summary:The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the "OED's" editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language. [via]
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Syntactic Structuresby Noam ChomskyISBN 0899250904 (0-89925-090-4)
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Transformational Grammar: A First Courseby Andrew RadfordISBN 0521347505 (0-521-34750-5)
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The World's Major Languagesby Bernard ComrieISBN 0195065115 (0-19-506511-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World's Major Languages'Book summary:From English, French, Spanish and Russian to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this is the first comprehensive reference work to provide detailed information about the world's forty major languages. Written by acknowledged specialists in the field, the volume begins with a general introduction to language and language families, followed by language-family sections that provide an informative essay about that language, and individual chapters that discuss the history, distribution, syntax, grammar and punctuation, writing and spelling systems, standards of usage, and other important aspects of each language. [via]
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Kant E L'ornitorincoby Umberto EcoISBN 8845228681 (88-452-2868-1)
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La Ricerca Della Lingua Perfetta Nella Cultura Europeaby Umberto EcoISBN 8842042870 (88-420-4287-0)
Hardcover, Laterza
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Como Hacer Cosas Con Palabrasby J.L. AustinISBN 8475091415 (84-7509-141-5)
Softcover, Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Como Hacer Cosas Con Palabras'Book summary:Este libro contiene ideas expuestas por John Langshaw Austin -una figurra clave en el mundo filosófico contemporáneo- en sus clases y en un ciclo de conferencias ofrecido en la Universidad de Harvard: las William James Lectures. Se trata, pues, de una recopilación de notas, cuidadosamente realizada por J.O. Urmson, en la que quedan expuestas las últimas e inconclusas reflexiones de Austin sobre temas candentes de filosofía del lenguaje. A ellos contribuyó de manera original con su análisis de las denominadas expresiones realizativas (performative utterances), la noción de fuerza ilocucionaria y, en general, con su teoría de los actos lingüísticos. Las ideas de Austin sobre la importancia del lenguaje ordinario, el carácter cooperativo de la investigación filosófica, y la necesidad de una ciencia del lenguaje liberada definitivamente del yugo de la filosofía hacen -entre otras cosas- que esta obra no sólo posea atracción especial para todos aquellos interesados en la reflexión filosófica sobre el lenguaje, sino también comunicación, la semántica, la lingüística e incluso la filosofía del derecho. [via]
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Kant Y El Ornitorrincoby Umberto EcoISBN 8426412653 (84-264-1265-3)
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Zur Theorie Der Sprechakte: (How to Do Things with Words)by J.L. AustinISBN 3150093961 (3-15-009396-1)
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