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The Language Impact: Evolution – System -Discourse Annotated Edition
Author(s): Alwin Frank Fill (Author)
- Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd,SW11
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2010
- Edition: Annotated
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1845537777
- ISBN-13: 9781845537777
Book Description
“The Language Impact” is a transdisciplinary book which looks at language from the point of view of its effect on the world. The appearance of language on our planet is similar to a natural event with far-reaching consequences for the evolution of the human species, the language system and discourse. The author shows in detail with many examples to what extent language has had and still has a strong effect on individuals, societies and the earth in general from the first bonding talk 30,000 years ago to the effects of the internet in the 21st century A.D. The book serves as a comprehensive and cutting-edge survey of this emerging field, covering a wide variety of topics including the phylogeny of language, Linguistic Relativity (Sapir/Whorf) and Linguistic Constructivism, Cognitive Linguistics as well as Critical Discourse Analysis and Discourse Strategies.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘As a comprehensive survey of what must be top of the agenda for any socially and environmentally committed linguist or student of linguistics, this book is second to none.’ –Professor Andrew Goatly, Department of English, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
The breadth of humanities disciplines covered in the book is phenomenal. Both beginning students of language and linguistics and also common readers will be able to benefit from its not inconsiderable insights and erudition, as well as committed fellow researchers. –Professor Richard Alexander, Wirtschafts Universitat Wien
About the Author
Alwin Frank Fill is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Graz, Austria. His previous books include A-kolinguistik: Eine Einfuhrung (Gunter Narr, 1993), Das Prinzip Spannung (Gunter Narr, 2003 (2nd ed. 2007)) and (co-edited together with Peter Muhlhausler) The Ecolinguistics Reader (Continuum, 2001).
