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Fundamentals of Language
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Fundamentals of Language

This volume consists of two studies. The first is a joint essay presenting a critical survey of the author's views on phonology, a theory of sound patterns, and their stratification. The second is an individual contribution from Roman Jakobson ranging widely over many problems of language and its disturbances, literature and general symbolic behaviour.

 
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Preliminaries to Speech Analysis: The Distinctive Features and Their Correlates
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Preliminaries to Speech Analysis: The Distinctive Features and Their CorrelatesThis work attempts to describes the ultimate discrete components of language, their specific structure, and their articulatory, acoustic, and perceptual correlates, and surveys their utilization in the language of the world. First published in 1951, this edition contains an added paper on Tenseness and Laxness.
 
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Hejwowski Krzysztof - Translation. A Cognitive - Communicative Approach
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Hejwowski Krzysztof - Translation. A Cognitive - Communicative ApproachHejwowski Krzysztof - Translation. A Cognitive - Communicative Approach

Useful for students of Translation Studies
 
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The Grammar of Identity - Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary
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The Grammar of Identity - Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the BoundaryThe Grammar of Identity - Transnational Fiction and the Nature of the Boundary

In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues.
 
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Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language
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Word and World - Practice and the Foundations of LanguageWord and World - Practice and the Foundations of Language

This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Rather, the link between language and world is a two-stage one, in which meaning is used and in which a natural language should be understood as fundamentally a collection of socially devised and maintained practices.
 
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