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2001, Routledge, pbk Sorry, out of stock, but click image to access prebuilt search for this title on Amazon UK Alternative online retailers to try: Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Alibris Click here to access our prebuilt search for this title on Ebay
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About this book/synopsis: This book introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the 20th Century. Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary on that text placing the ideas communicated by it into their relevant social and intellectual context. The book is easy to read and use - it's written in a very accessible manner and covers these thinkers who have shaped modern day linguistics: Austin, Bruner, Chomsky, Derrida, Firth, Goffman, Harris, Jakobson, Labov, Orwell, Sapir, Skinner, Whorf and Wittgenstein Note that the book Black Athena disputes the belief that modern philosophy and thinking goes back only as far as Ancient Greece, which is a premise that this book is founded upon. Black Athena argues that the Greeks' institutions themselves were derived in general from the East and Egypt in particular. Contents: Suggestions for Further Reading |
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