The Crucible of Language by Vyvyan Evans

The Crucible of Language by Vyvyan Evans

From the barbed, childish taunt on the school playground, to the eloquent sophistry of a lawyer prising open a legal loophole in a court of law, meaning arises each time we use language to communicate with one another. How we use language - to convey ideas, make requests, ask a favour, and express anger, love or dismay - is of the utmost importance; indeed, linguistic meaning can be a matter of life and death. In The Crucible of Language, Vyvyan Evans explains what we know, and what we do, when we communicate using language; he shows how linguistic meaning arises, where it comes from, and the way language enables us to convey the meanings that can move us to tears, bore us to death, or make us dizzy with delight. Meaning is, he argues, one of the final frontiers in the mapping of the human mind.

'Evans has reclaimed language from the dry dissection of grammatical structure and returned it to the public as a topic to think deeply about' Alun Anderson, New Scientist

Vyvyan Evans is Professor of Linguistics at Bangor University, where he has served as Head of the School of Linguistics and English Language, and Deputy Head of the College of Arts and Humanities.

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ISBN 13	9781107561038
ISBN 10	1107561035
Title	The Crucible of Language
Author	Vyvyan Evans
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2015-02-16
Number of pages	375
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