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Margreet Kwakernaak Dutch for dummies
Leerboek voor alledaags gesproken Nederlands voor Engelstaligen; met cd.
Non-fictie
Engels | Nederlands | ePub2, 5,1 MB | Voor Dummies, Amersfoort | 2018
E-book
Morten H. Christiansen | Nick Chater Creating language
integrating evolution, acquisition, and processing
Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities are unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment by moment, in the generation and understanding of individual utterances; year by year, as new language learners acquire language skills; and generation by generation, as languages change, split, and...
Engels | 330 pagina's | The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Charles Taylor The language animal
the full shape of the human linguistic capacity
"In this book, Charles Taylor explains linguistic holism to people who believe language needs to be thought of as bits of information. According to one influential view of language, one that originated with Hobbes, Locke, and Condillac, language serves to encode information and to communicate it. This theory has been rendered more sophisticated over the last two centuries, but it still gives a central place to the encoding of information. The thesis of Taylor's new book is that this view neglects...
Engels | 352 pagina's | The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2016
Gedrukt boek
Tom Wolfe The kingdom of speech
Geschiedenis van de zoektocht in de negentiende en twintigste eeuw van antropologen en linguìˆsten naar een verklaring voor het ontstaan en wezen van natuurlijke taal.
Non-fictie
Engels | 185 pagina's | Jonathan Cape, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek
J.R.R. Tolkien A secret vice
Tolkien on invented languages
Monografie over de kunsttalen die de Britse schrijver (1892-1973) bedacht voor zijn boeken over fictieve werelden.
Engels | 157 pagina's | HarperCollins Publishers, London | 2016
Gedrukt boek