Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues

Rossari, Corinne/ Ricci, Claudia/ Spiridon, Adriana

ISBN 10: 1848553161 / ISBN 13: 9781848553163

Published by Emerald Group Pub Ltd, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Language in Life, and a Life in Language: Facts, Approaches, Theoretical Issues
• Publisher: Emerald Group Pub Ltd
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848553161
• ISBN 13: 9781848553163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.2 kilograms

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Synopsis

This is a collection of invited papers that honours Professor Jacob Mey on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Professor Mey is, and has for a long time been, at once one of the most respected, enterprising, industrious, scholarly and, now, avuncular members of the numerous linguistics communities in which he has worked. He has made, over a distinguished working life, significant contributions to all of the sub-disciplines of linguistics, from phonetics, through phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and especially pragmatics. He has sought to make connections between these sub-disciplines and broader areas of thought. These connections have resulted in ground breaking advances in, for example, Japanese sociolinguistics, pragmatics and artificial intelligence, Marxist linguistics, pragmatics and therapy, pragmatics and machine-processed information, gender and language, literary pragmatics and societal pragmatics. The collection ends with an in-depth discussion between Professor Mey and one of the editors in which Professor Mey speaks fully and frankly about his life in language and language in life.