ix 242p hardback, dustjacket, a very well preserved copy, inscribed by Dell Hymes to Izzy in 1954 and 1955, text all clean, binding all firm Language: English.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech.

Publisher

New York: Harcourt, Brace

Publication Date

1950

Language

English

ISBN 10

0246640294

ISBN 13

9780246640291

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

3rd Edition

Condition

Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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1921. This little book aims to give a certain perspective on the subject of language rather than to assemble facts about it. It has little to say of the ultimate psychological basis of speech and gives only enough of the actual descriptive or historical facts of particular languages to illustrate principles. Its main purpose is to show what I conceive language to be, what is its variability in place and time, and what are its relations to other fundamental human interests-the problem of thought, the nature of the historical process, race, culture, art. Language Define; The Elements of Speech; The Sounds of Language; Form in Language; Grammatical Processes; Form in Language; Grammatical Concepts; Types of Linguistic Structure; Language as a Historical Drift; Language as a Historical Phonetic Law; How Languages Influence Each Other; Language, Race and Culture; and Language and Literature.

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