Language Through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics

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Oxford University Press, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 174 pages
What 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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... glossolalia 115 jarganophasia 122 and syntactic anomalies 119-20 , 121 aphorisms 18 , 88 Apollinaire , Guillaume 16 Apostrophes 108 Artaud , Antonin 17 , 119 , 121 articles , derived from numerals 43 articulation of speech sounds 110 ...
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... glossolalia 115 , 117 Godzich , W. 4 Gover , Mark R. 69 grammar 113 grammatical morphemes 37 , 43 grammatical rules 113 grammaticality judgements 117-18 language structure and thought pat- terns 79 as linguistic competence 118 meaning ...

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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
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Marina Yaguello
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Marina Yaguello,Trevor A. Le V. Harris
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About the author (1998)

Marina Yaguello is Professor and Chair of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Paris and-Denis Diderot. She has been Visiting Professor in London and in Dakar and has lectured all over North America, Europe, and in many African countries. She has written nine other books about language and linguistics, including Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary languages and their inventors (Athlone Press). She specializes in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface.

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TitleLanguage Through the Looking Glass: Exploring Language and Linguistics
AuthorMarina Yaguello
Translated byTrevor A. Le V. Harris
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherOxford University Press, 1998
ISBN0198700059, 9780198700050
Length174 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Grammar & Punctuation
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative
  
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