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<P><B><FONT color=#cc0000><FONT size=+3>The Domain of Language</FONT></FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT size=+2>by <FONT color=#000099>Michael Fortescue</FONT></FONT></B>
<BR><B>Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen 2002</B> <BR><B>392
pages, hardbound. ISBN 87-7289-706-6. £30, $49, € 59</B>
<P><FONT color=#990000>This book is intended as counter-evidence to the
perception that Linguistics is a matter of dusty schoolroom grammar. The
discipline may appear to outsiders as fragmented and – worse still – lacking in
relevance to the real world outside its gates. This book demonstrates that
Linguistics, in all its varied branches, can be entertaining as well as
thought-provoking, and that its domain is indeed a coherent one despite all the
internecine squabbling.</FONT><FONT color=#990000></FONT>
<P><FONT color=#990000>In an unconventional way Michael Fortescue introduces his
subject as a kind of fable with a historical moral that professional linguists,
as well as students, should enjoy as a commentary on the state of the discipline
today.</FONT>
<P><FONT color=#990000>A sample chapter of the book can be read</FONT> <FONT
color=#990000>at the following website:</FONT> <A
href="http://www.cphling.dk/pers/mf/dom.sample.htm">http://www.cphling.dk/pers/mf/dom.sample.htm</A>
<P><B><A href="http://www.cphling.dk/pers/mf/">Michael Fortescue</A> is
Professor of Linguistics, University of Copenhagen. He is the author of
<I>Language relations across Bering Strait: reappraising the archeological and
linguistic evidence</I> (London, 1998), and <I>Pattern and Process: A
Whitehedian Perspective on Linguistics</I> (Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2001)</B>
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+45 35 32 91 13 <BR>E <A href="marius@mtp.dk">marius@mtp.dk</A> <BR>Web: <A
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