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Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Language and Reality: Selected Writings of Sydney Lamb
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Jonathan J. Webster
By (author) Sydney Lamb
SeriesOpen Linguistics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:544
Category/Genrelinguistics
ISBN/Barcode 9780826492975
ClassificationsDewey:410
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 30 July 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Language and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-worked for publication here. Although he is a leading figure in linguistic science, many of the papers are far from well known, some of them having appeared in more obscure venues of publication, and for the most part unavailable to the wider linguistic community. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which includes papers offering insight into the man behind this pioneering approach to doing linguistics that might best be summed up as "linguistics to the beat of a different drummer." The papers in Part II explore the theoretical origins of Lamb's ideas about language that have often been described as ahead of their time. Part III includes more recent writings outlining work done in Neurocognitive Linguistics. Studies of the interconnectedness of language with other kinds of human experience and with history are presented in Part IV.

Author Biography

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association's journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). Sydney Lamb is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Rice University in Texas.

Reviews

Review in Slovo A Slovesnost, Vol 67, No. 3, August 2006