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The Written Language Bias in Linguistics Per Linell

The Written Language Bias in Linguistics By Per Linell

The Written Language Bias in Linguistics by Per Linell


Summary

There is an extensive 'written language bias' in traditional and present day linguists and other language sciences. In this book, this point is argued with rich and convincing evidence from virtual all fields of linguistics.

The Written Language Bias in Linguistics Summary

The Written Language Bias in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations by Per Linell

Tackles a key issue in linguistic theory (the written bias in linguistics) from a cross disciplinary perspective

Will be of interest to academics and students in linguistics, philosophy of language as well as conversional and discourse analysis

Only book-length treatment of the subject that adopts a critical, integrationist perspective

About Per Linell

Per Linell

Table of Contents

Part One: Preliminaries 1. Introduction 2. From aspects of communicative action to sets of abstract forms 3. Speech and writing, spoken and written language 4. The written language bias in linguistics Part Two: The Phenomenon and its Extension 5. The written language bias in 101 points Part Three: Discussion 6. The transformations of some written language-based themes 7. Critique of the written language bias arguments 8. People's languages and linguists' grammars 9. The written language bias - past, present, future

Additional information

NLS9780415511445
9780415511445
0415511445
The Written Language Bias in Linguistics: Its Nature, Origins and Transformations by Per Linell
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2011-11-29
266
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