Language Through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and LinguisticsWhat can wordplay--as understood in the broadest sense--teach us about language, its functions, characteristics, structure, and workings? Using Lewis Carroll's Alice as a starting point, Yanguello takes the reader on a vivid and unconventional voyage into the world(s) of language, charting the major themes of linguistics along the way. This is an entertaining and original introduction to the nature of language that will appeal to students and teachers alike. |
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... What Language is For 2. The Tower of Babel Universal characteristics of language 3. Pink Elephants Redundancy at work I 62 22 24 4. The Canny Canner 28 5. Anti - dis - establish - ment - arian - ism The speech chain and its components ...
... What Language is For 2. The Tower of Babel Universal characteristics of language 3. Pink Elephants Redundancy at work I 62 22 24 4. The Canny Canner 28 5. Anti - dis - establish - ment - arian - ism The speech chain and its components ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Canny Canner | 32 |
Antidisestablishmentarianism | 41 |
Words as Signs | 76 |
The Incredible Lightness of Meaning | 93 |
The House that Jack Built | 99 |
Green Ideas | 122 |
Murdering Time | 130 |
The Miser and the Prodigal | 137 |
Conclusion | 161 |
Other editions - View all
Language Through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics Marina Yaguello No preview available - 1998 |
Language Through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics Marina Yaguello,Trevor A. Le V. Harris No preview available - 1998 |
Common terms and phrases
accent addressee Alice followed Alice's ambiguity antonym articulation called canner Chapter child communication competence connotations consonants context creativity defined derived dialects dictionary distinction e. e. cummings English example expression fact figures of speech followed the White French function Gertrude Stein glossolalia grammatical green ideas guage homonymy homophones human Humpty Dumpty Jakobson language system langue Lewis Carroll lexical linguistic manner of articulation meaning metalinguistic metaphor metonymy minimal pairs morphemes native speaker neologisms noun opposition parole paronymic phatic phonemes phonological place of articulation play poetic poetry polysemy possible produced pronounced Queen reality redundancy reference relationship rhymes riddles role rules s/he Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Saussure semantic sense sentence signifier social sounds speaking spelling spoken structure syllable symbolic synonyms synonymy syntactic syntax talk tion tongue units utterance verb vowel White Rabbit word boundaries wordplay