EAN: 9783111266763

WHY LANGUAGE? - JACQUES MOESCHLER KARTONIERT (TB)

There is  at present  no book introducing the general issue of why language is specific to
human beings  how it works  why language is not communication and communication is not language
why languages vary and how they evolved.Based on the most recent works in linguistics and
pragmatics  Why Language? addresses many questions that everyone has about language. Starting
from false claims about language and languages  showing that language is not communication and
communication is not language  the first part (Language and Communication) ends by proposing a
difference between linguistic rules and communicative principles. The second part (Language 
Society  Discourse) includes domains of language and language uses which are generally taken as
extrinsic to language  such as language variety  discourse and non-ordinary (literary) usages.
Special attention is given to figures of discourse (metaphor  metonymy  irony) and literary
usages such as narration and free indirect style. The reader  either specialist or amateur in
language science  will find a first and unique synthesis about what we know today about
language and what we have yet to learn  sketching what could be the future of linguistics in
the next decades.

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