Language through the Looking Glass

副标题: Exploring Language and Linguistics

ISBN: 9780198700050

出版社: Oxford University Press, USA

出版年: 1998-12-30

页数: 182

定价: USD 24.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.