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Child Language

Author : Barbara C. Lust

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 411 pages

File Size : 14,33 MB

Release : 2006-09-21

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1139459279

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Book Description

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially mastered by the age of three, and with incredible ease and speed, despite the complexity of the task. This accessible textbook introduces the field of child language acquisition, exploring language development from birth. Setting out the key theoretical debates, it considers questions such as what characteristics of the human mind make it possible to acquire language; how far acquisition is biologically programmed and how far it is influenced by our environment; what makes second language learning (in adulthood) different from first language acquisition; and whether the specific stages in language development are universal across languages. Clear and comprehensive, it is set to become a key text for all courses in child language acquisition, within linguistics, developmental psychology and cognitive science.



Politics and the English Language

Author : George Orwell

Publisher : Renard Press Ltd

Page : pages

File Size : 11,34 MB

Release : 2021-01-01

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 1913724271

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George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Politics and the English Language, the second in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell takes aim at the language used in politics, which, he says, ‘is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind’. In an age where the language used in politics is constantly under the microscope, Orwell’s Politics and the English Language is just as relevant today, and gives the reader a vital understanding of the tactics at play. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times





The Language of the Law

Author : David Mellinkoff

Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers

Page : 540 pages

File Size : 27,24 MB

Release : 2004-05-13

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1592446906

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This book tells what the language of the law is, how it got that way and how it works out in the practice. The emphasis is more historical than philosophical, more practical than pedantic.



The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 1, 600-1660

Author : George Watson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 1322 pages

File Size : 26,79 MB

Release : 1974-08-29

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780521200042

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More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.