Title: Structural Linguistics in the 21st Century
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Book URL: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-1259-3

Author: Geoffrey Sampson
Hardback: ISBN: 1-0364-1259-8 Pages: 262 Price: U.K. £ 67.99
Hardback: ISBN: 978-1-0364-1259-3 Pages: 262 Price: U.K. £ 67.99
Abstract:

This book is written as a sequel to Sampson's textbook "Schools of Linguistics", which has been translated into several foreign languages.

Since the publication of that book, the internet and cheap air travel have globalized scholarship. Consequently, developments in linguistics no longer happen in geographically-separate "schools", such as the Prague School or the London School of the twentieth century. Instead, the state of play in linguistics today is best portrayed through a sampler illustrating the diversity of new developments. "Structural Linguistics in the 21st Century" offers such a sampler, describing two dozen of the most promising advances in the subject to have emerged in recent years; and it includes a few chapters looking back at how the approaches discussed in "Schools of Linguistics" panned out at the end of the old century, before they evolved into — or made way for — today's more realistic and more diverse linguistics.

A particularly attractive feature of 21st-century linguistics is its growing willingness to forge links with other disciplines. Sampson's book illustrates relationships that have arisen recently between linguistics and subjects as diverse as anthropology, genomics, psychology, politics, and others.

Written in Sampson's usual down-to-earth and readable style, "Structural Linguistics in the 21st Century" is straightforwardly accessible to any student taking a linguistics course.

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)