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Why Do Linguistics?: Reflective Linguistics and the Study of Language - Tapa blanda

English, Fiona; Marr, Tim

 
9781441166098: Why Do Linguistics?: Reflective Linguistics and the Study of Language
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ISBN 10: 1441166092 ISBN 13: 9781441166098
Editorial: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

Sinopsis

What do we need to know about language and why do we need to know it? This book shows how viewing the world through a linguistics lens can help us to understand how we communicate with each other and why we do it in the ways we do. Above all this book is about noticing. It is about encouraging readers to pay attention to the language that surrounds them.

The book addresses fundamental linguistic questions such as: Where do people's beliefs about language come from? Who decides what language we should speak? How do we choose the best way to express what we mean? It introduces a set of practical tools for language analysis and, using examples of authentic communicative activity including overheard conversations, Facebook posts and public announcements, shows how this kind of analysis works and what it can tell us about social interaction.

Exploring language and language use from a social, intercultural and multilingual perspective, the authors demonstrate the relevance of linguistics in understanding day-to-day interaction. This book will help readers not only to become informed, active observers of language for its own sake, but also to be able to take on and challenge some of the misconceptions, assumptions and prejudices that so often underlie public discussion of language issues.

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Acerca de los autores

Fiona English is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Applied Linguistics, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

Tim Marr is Visiting Professor in TESOL and Applied Linguistics at Universidad Icesi, Colombia.

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Editorial
Bloomsbury Academic
Año de publicación
2015
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1441166092
ISBN 13 
9781441166098
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
304
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