Languages by Stephen Anderson
How many languages are there? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questions as he illuminates the science behind languages. Considering a wide range of different languages and linguistic examples, Anderson provides the basic facts about the world's major families of spoken languages and their distribution around the globe. He explores the basis for linguistic classification and raises questions about how we identify a language. Considering signed languages as well as spoken, Anderson also examines the wider social issues of losing languages, and their impact on vanishing cultures and peoples.-
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Economics
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Jung
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The Brain
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The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
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Game Theory
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Classics
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Political Philosophy
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Literary Theory
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Psychology
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Forensic Psychology
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History
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Feminism
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Freud
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The History of Medicine
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The British Empire
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British Politics: A Very Short Introduction
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Islam: A Very Short Introduction
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Kant
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The Roman Republic
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Child Psychology
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The Russian Revolution
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Hegel
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Ancient Greece
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Witchcraft
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Autism
Stephen Anderson has been the Dorothy R. Diebold Professor of Linguistics at Yale University for the last 15 years. He has written or co-authored six books in Linguistics, including Doctor Dolittle's Delusion (Yale University Press, 2004) a book on animal communication and its relation to human language intended for the educated general reader that was chosen as the Best Book in Psychology for 2004 by the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Linguistic Society of America, and the Association for Psychological Science. He was also President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2007.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199590599 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199590591 |
| Title | Languages |
| Author | Stephen Anderson |
| Series | Very Short Introductions |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2012-06-28 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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