Language Change: Progress or Decay? (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics) - Softcover

Aitchison, Jean

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107678927 ISBN 13: 9781107678927

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. The central theme of this book is whether language change is a symptom of progress or decay. This book will show you why it is neither, and that understanding the factors surrounding how language change occurs is essential to understanding why it happens. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.

About this title

Book Description:

How and why do languages change? Where does the evidence of language change come from? How do languages begin and end? This introduction to language change explores these and other questions, considering changes through time. This updated edition remains non-technical and accessible to readers with no previous knowledge of linguistics.

About the Author:

After many years lecturing with the University of London (at the London School of Economics and Political Science), Jean Aitchison was Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford (1993-2003) and is now an Emeritus Professor. She is the author of a number of books on language, including The Language Web (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107678927
• ISBN 13: 9781107678927
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 312