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S'està carregant… The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguisticsde Trey Jones (Editor), Keith W. Slater (Editor), Bill Spruiell (Editor)
  
Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.   ) slaterfamily | Dec 21, 2013 | 
 “Don’t wait for Jon Stewart or Louis C.K. to do something with linguistics—it ain’t gonna happen. Just get this book and give a copy to everyone who needs a laugh.” “Shout it from the rooftops. Or just do like me and go stand on a street corner waving a Bible and scream it: ‘The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics is out!’ ... Seriously, this volume has not only a real place in the field, it also continues an important tradition [in the line of] Studies out in Left Field: Defamatory essays presented to James D. McCawley.” “SpecGram has now condensed centuries of satirical linguistic articles, comics and pearls of wisdom into a single book. ... [T]his compilation makes a tidy package, a pleasant bit of browsing, and a convenient gift for the book-loving linguist. ... There is also some additional material in this book—it’s worth it for the self-defining glossary of linguistic terms alone.” “[S]ome sections are generally accessible, and the motley mischief is unified by the trademark SpecGram voice—if such a thing can be said to exist—which combines condescension with flattery and arch irony with sincere delight.” “The editors and contributors obviously know their stuff, don’t take themselves (or their discipline) over-seriously, and enjoy playing with linguistics, language, and languages to create something new, amusing, and (dare we say) even educational at times. The Speculative Grammarian Essential Guide to Linguistics provides a light-hearted romp for those unafraid to plunge into the invigorating and hilarious waters of ‘satirical linguistics.’ ”
Speculative Grammarian is the premier scholarly journal featuring research in the oft neglected field of satirical linguistics-and it is now available in book form! The past twenty-five years have witnessed many changes in linguistics, with major developments in linguistic theory, significant expansion in language description, and even some progress in getting a few members of the general public to realize that the term "linguist" is not defined as 'someone who works at the UN doing simultaneous translation'. Speculative Grammarian is proud to have been a part of these changes. And now, in our humble yet authoritative opinion, the time is ripe for the appearance of an anthology containing the most important linguistics articles to have appeared in SpecGram in the past twenty-five years. (Readers seeking articles from before 1988 should consult one of the previous volumes in this series, which have appeared at intervals ranging from twenty to one hundred years ever since SpecGram was first published). This anthology, it is hoped, will allow our readers to gain a deeper, wider, fatter understanding of linguistics as it evolved in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, without the trouble of having to take a graduate seminar in "Modern Linguistics" taught by a professor who's so old that she thinks the Beach Boys are cute. Some of us took graduate seminars like that ourselves, and believe us, this book is better. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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