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Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 09:21:32
From: Ulrich Lueders [lincom.europa at t-online.de]
Subject: Strange Linguistics: Newbrook, Curtain, Libert

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Title: Strange Linguistics 
Series Title: Linguistics Edition 93  

Publication Year: 2013 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom-shop.eu
	

Book URL: http://www.lincom-shop.eu 


Author: Mark Newbrook
Author: Jane Curtain
Author: Alan Reed Libert

Paperback: ISBN:  9783862884193 Pages: 394 Price: Europe EURO 44.80


Abstract:

This book provides a critical and historiographical overview of non-mainstream
(‘fringe’) claims and theories about language and languages presented by
non-linguists, with an especial focus on work produced in the last fifty
years. Topic areas include the origins and relationships of languages,
historical and non-historical aspects of writing systems, linguistic material
emanating from mysterious sources, supposed non-human languages, language and
the mind, etc. The ideas discussed range from the truly bizarre to the merely
dubious. The last chapter deals with some aspects of mainstream linguistics
which appear to invite skeptical attention. Although there is a substantial
critical literature on some specific topics of this kind, there has never
before been a linguistically-informed general work on this entire topic area;
this work remedies this situation. Newbrook outlines, explains and critiques a
wide range of such ideas, in his capacity as a professional linguist
associated with the world-wide skeptical movement. The intention is to be fair
and free of dogmatism in making critiques, and not to ‘debunk’ without due
consideration. Newbrook also addresses the question of how each set of
non-mainstream ideas developed out of earlier (often largely non-linguistic)
intellectual or quasi-intellectual background thinking. Unnecessary
technicalities are avoided and key concepts are explained in a glossary or as
they arise.

Mark Newbrook was born and brought up in Wirral near Liverpool in North-West
England.  He completed a BA (Honours) in Classics (including Indo-European
philology) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and went on to take an MA and a
PhD in linguistics at the University of Reading, specialising in variationist
historical dialectology and associated attitudinal matters. Subsequently he
spent many years as a lecturer and researcher in linguistics in Singapore,
Hong Kong and Australia. While in Australia, Mark combined his professional
activities with his broad-based interest in skepticism to become one of the
few identifying 'skeptical linguists'; he was linguistics consultant to
Australian Skeptics and now occupies similar roles in the equivalent British
organisations. He has authored several books and many articles and reviews on
various aspects of linguistics, notably sociolinguistics, dialectology and
skeptical linguistics.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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