What is language?
Subtitle: A new approach to linguistic description.
Edition: First
Series: Longmans linguistics library; Longman linguistics library
Publisher: Longmans, Green And Co Ltd
Published: 1965
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Language and languages.
Other titles: Linguistic description.
First sentence: All the discussion in this book is quite relative to my one, main purpose. I am interested in finding out, in the most general way possible, how language is used - both in itself and in relations to other phenomea
Notes: Bibliography: p. 204-210.
index: pps. 211-216
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Towards a Linguistic Theory
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Opinions about Language
pagenum: 23; label: A
title: Plato and Aristotle
pagenum: 23; label: B
title: Dionysius Thrax and the Schoolmen
pagenum: 38; label: C
title: 1500 to 1850
pagenum: 49; label: D
title: Wittgenstein and Modern Logic
pagenum: 57; label: E
title: Theories of Linguistics
pagenum: 72; label: 3
title: Towards a Linguistic Description
pagenum: 105; label: 4
title: Other Attitudes
pagenum: 166