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The Routledge Companion To Semiotics And Linguisticsby Paul Cobley
Taylor & Francis 2001; US$ 35.95The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics opens up the world of semiotics and linguistics for newcomers to the discipline, and provides a useful ready-reference for the more advanced student. more...
Course in General Linguisticsby Ferdinand la Saussure
Open Court 1986; US$ 20.00The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy. more...
Language and Philosophical Problemsby Sö Stenlund; ren
Routledge 1990; US$ 115.00This work examines problems about mind, meaning and mathematics rooted in preconceptions of language. Philosophical claims made by theorists of meaning are shown to be connected with common views about certain mathematical ideas or methods. more...
Archaeology and Language IIIby Roger Blench; Matthew Spriggs
Routledge 1999; US$ 193.00Archaeology and Language III interprets results from archaeological data in terms of language distribution and change, providing the tools for a radical rewriting of the conventional discourse of prehistory. more...
Archaeology and Language Iby Roger Blench; Matthew Spriggs
Routledge 1997; US$ 185.00Archaeology and Language I is representative of groundbreaking work into two areas which have only recently been correlated: linguistics and archaeology. more...
Beyond Superstructuralismby Richard Harland
Routledge 1993; US$ 54.95Challenges the foundation of recent literary and language-based theory, offering instead a syntagmatic approach to language. Covers `post-Chomskyan' linguistics, deconstruction, analytic and speech-act theory. more...
Archaeology and Language IIby Roger Blench; Matthew Spriggs
Routledge 1998; US$ 185.00Using language to date the origin and spread of food production Archaeology and Language II represents groundbreaking work in synthesizing two disciplines that are now seen as interlinked: linguistics and archaeology. more...
Archaeology and Language IVby Roger Blench; Matthew Spriggs
Routledge 1999; US$ 185.00This volume provides a challenging variety of case-studies which demonstrate how global patterns of language distribution and change can be interwoven to produce a rich historical narrative. more...
Change in Languageby Brigitte Nerlich
Routledge 1990; US$ 130.00The aim of this book is to provide a fresh view of the history of nineteenth-century language study by focusing on the writings of three linguists (Whitney, Bréal and Wegener) in three countries (the United States, France and Germany). more...
Rethinking Linguisticsby Hayley G. Davis; Talbot J. Taylor
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 143.00Rethinks the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Uses integrationist theory to exemplify how langauge users become language makers. more...