Reading this volume transported me back to Harvard and MIT lecture halls of the 1960s,
where weekly Roman Jakobson would spellbind his audience (this reviewer included) …

An expert, accessible study, this book asks and answers fundamental questions about how
language works, its regional variations, and its cultural and historical roles. The author …

Roman Jakobson, one of the most important thinkers of our century, was best known for his
role in the rise and spread of the structuralist approach to linguistics and literature. His …

This interview was recorded at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on January 12, 2004, directly following
the Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America that took place in Boston, where …

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Although linguists remember him for a whole range of theoretical and methodological shifts
he introduced, Saussure's more general fame stems almost entirely from his conception of a …

For nearly half a century, Professor MAK Halliday has been enriching the discipline of
linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This …

Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's
own words," How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how …

" Roman Jakobson was one of the great minds of the modern world," Edward J. Brown has
written," and the effects of his genius have been felt in many fields: linguistics, semiotics, art …