The choice of an auxiliary language for the world. Perspectives within the context of contemporary linguistics

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Published by GRIN Verlag Jul 2015, 2015

3668013489 / 9783668013483

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Thesis (M.A.) from the year 1984 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, Lancaster University (Departement of Linguistics and Modern English Language), language: English, abstract: This work explores criteria for the selection of a Universal Auxiliary Language (UAL) through the lens of late-20th century Linguistics.The text is based on several innovative premises. First, whereas academic linguists almost exclusively focus on natural languages and UAL proponents generally consider only artificial ones (along with a few modified natural languages), this work is based on the premise that a global auxiliary could be either natural or constructed in nature. Secondly, the work embraces the idea of comparing the linguistic features of potential UALs -- which also applies to the highly competitive field of UALs ('Interlinguistics') but not to post-19th-century General Linguistics, where natural-language comparisons have been shunned on the grounds of the presumed equality of natural languages (and to avoid ethno-linguistic supremacism.)In reviewing, then, what if anything Linguistics could contribute to UAL selection, the text covers: [a] a broad definition of UAL, [b] a typology of UAL contenders, [c] a review of social and political linguistic criteria for UAL selection, [d] investigation into the notions of UAL 'simplicity' and 'learnability' against the backdrop of the innateness hypothesis in Linguistics, [e] the relevance of grammatical features of creolization, and lastly [f] a contrastive review of potential UAL scripts. A key distinction is made between [1] simplicity defined cognitively as maximum regularity and fewness of rules, as generally proposed by unilinguists for the benefit adult learners of proposed UALs, and [2] simplicity defined neurolinguistically as closeness to the morpho-syntactic dictates of the posited innateness that is central to much of Linguistics in the 108 pp. Englisch.…

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Title
The choice of an auxiliary language for the world. Perspectives within the context of contemporary linguistics
Author
Gregory Paul P. Meyjes
Publisher
GRIN Verlag Jul 2015
Publication year
2015
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Taschenbuch
Language
English
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3668013489
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9783668013483
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169 grams
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210x148x8 mm

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