An Encyclopaedia of Language(Routledge Reference)
Author(s): N. E. Collinge | Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition | Date : 1990 | Pages : 570
Format : Pdf | Quality : Excellent | Language : English | ISBN-10 : 0203711858
This well organised and usefully illustrated encyclopaedia explores human language from every angle, and provides comrehensive reference to the state of knowledge and future directions of its study.
In this work 26 experts describe how language works, accounting for its nature, its use, its study and its history. Part 1 looks at the features which make language a specifically human mode of communication and interaction. Part 2, through its first five chapters links language to other aspects of human behaviour; the next two show how people pass on their acquired knowledge of a language, or learn from others either language or skills in other things by language. Lastly, there are discussions of how literacy is related to literature and to numeracy. Part 3 explores dictionaries, writing systems, sign languages, `special’ languages, the history of language study and of languages themselves, in time and in geographical space, and explains how languages are dispersed in the world. Indexes of topics, technical terms and names complete the volume.
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