The Domain of Language

• Main Author: Michael Fortescue (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Museum Tusculanum Press 2004
• Subjects: linguistics; functional grammar; metaphors; language and linguistics; fonologi; generative linguistics; phonetics; metaforik; semiotics; comparative linguistics; passiv; generativ lingvistik; passive voice; syntax; phonology; grammatik; sprog og lingvistik; komparativ lingvistik; funktionel grammatik; pragmatics; morphophonology; morfofonologi; semiotik; morfologi; pragmatik; morphology; english; cases, use of; syntaks; semantics; semantik; kasus, brug af; fonetik; grammar; engelsk
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This book is intended as counter-evidence to the perception that Linguistics is a domain of dusty schoolroom grammar. It follows that linguistics can be characterised differently than as proponents of theoretical orientations who spend their brief breaks from their bone-dry work bashing each other over the head with their various favourite abstractions. The discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and - worse still - lacking in relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book demonstrates that Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the internecine squabbling. In an unconventional way, Michael Fortescue introduces his subject as a kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists, as well as students, should enjoy as a useful commentary on the state of the discipline today. is a professor of Linguistics at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of (London, 1998), and (Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2001).