Laurie Bauer
Autor/a de Language Myths
Sobre l'autor
Laurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. I.S.P. Nation is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Obres de Laurie Bauer
Watching English Change: An Introduction to the Study of Linguistic Change in Standard Englishes in Twentieth Century… (1994) 8 exemplars
English Morphology for the Language Teaching Profession (ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series) (2020) 2 exemplars
Questions About Language: What Everyone Should Know About Language in the 21st Century (2020) 2 exemplars
Readings in English Phonetics and Phonology: collected with introductory comments by Laurie Bauer 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Morphology 2000 : selected papers from the 9th Morphology Meeting, Vienna, 24-28 February 2000 (2002) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Morphology and its demarcations: Selected papers from the 11th Morphology meeting, Vienna, February 2004 (2005) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February… (2010) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
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- Data de naixement
- 1949-08-09
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- New Zealand
- Llocs de residència
- New Zealand
- Educació
- University of Edinburgh (PhD)
- Professions
- Professor of Linguistics
- Organitzacions
- Victoria University of Wellington
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Language Myths de Laurie Bauer
Such a treat: 21 short essays addressing common linguistic misunderstandings, misapprehensions and misbeliefs. Everything you thought you knew about languages (yours and others) is wrong and now we know why. And so entertainingly presented! This book costs so little and is so filled with useful information in so few pages that there's no excuse for not learning what you shouldn't believe about words, and why.
Mildly informative and mildly entertaining book about some widely held language myths. Overall it takes aim at the premise that there are permanent rules for a language (the prescriptive approach) but this isn't exactly new news. Language mavens, however, will enjoy it.
A great little book doing away with misconceptions most people have about language. Since it's a collection of essays, there is variation in style and quality, but overall it's very good. The book could have done with tighter editing, however.
This book has a good heart, and a few really solid essays--Dennis Preston (funny guy, incidentally) on prestige ranking of American accents and JK Chambers on TV's non-effect on language change (the reason I bought it originally, and while a little offended that a certain nameless someone referred me to the shibboleths book to prove the point, I am also convinced). Some of the others are definitely kindergarten, and I don't mean for language scholars, but surely even the gen-pub doesn't needto be told that some languages aren't intrinsically "harder" or "more expressive" or "faster" or "more primitive" than others, and that language change isn't language decline? Then I think about how quickly I can come up with five people who have said just the opposite on one of these matters in the last six weeks, and how stubborn they were, and I'm like "oh yeah." So there is definitely a place for this book, even if I suspect most of the prescriptivists and cavilers will require more convincing than it provides. And it's a quick read.… (més)
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