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Description for Teaching Linguistics
Hardcover. This book is the first to give teachers of linguistics the chance to reflect on their professional practice as teachers and thus to share their enthusiasms, their strategies and their personal approaches to their subject. Editor(s): Kuiper, Koenraad. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 figures. BIC Classification: CF; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
At some point in our past, human beings evolved the incredibly complex natural language systems which we all take for granted but without which we would not be able to communicate in the ways we do with each other, have civilizations, be able to contemplate the future and to change it. In the last hundred years we have begun to understand how these communication systems work. We know much about how we make speech sounds, organise them into words, the words into sentences and how the words and sentences we produce mean what they do. The subject within whose ... Read more
At some point in our past, human beings evolved the incredibly complex natural language systems which we all take for granted but without which we would not be able to communicate in the ways we do with each other, have civilizations, be able to contemplate the future and to change it. In the last hundred years we have begun to understand how these communication systems work. We know much about how we make speech sounds, organise them into words, the words into sentences and how the words and sentences we produce mean what they do. The subject within whose ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Equinox Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845536862
SKU
V9781845536862
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-44
About Kuiper
Koenraad Kuiper is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is the Managing Editor of the Yearbook of Phraseology and the author of a number of books including, most recently, Formulaic Genres (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Reviews for Teaching Linguistics
'This volume is, as best I can tell, the first of its kind in the vast literature on linguistics, or at the very least, it is one of the few such collections around. I found myself agreeing with the authors repeatedly on point after point, and so it is clear to me that this is a work that all of ... Read more