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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 10:35:56
From: Celine Aenlle-Rocha [Celine.Aenlle-Rocha at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of the Word: Taylor (ed.)

 


Title: The Oxford Handbook of the Word 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-the-word-9780198808633 


Editor: John R. Taylor

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198808633 Pages: 894 Price: U.S. $ 45.00


Abstract:

Editor’s Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced book.

This handbook addresses words in all their multifarious aspects and brings
together scholars from every relevant discipline to do so. The many subjects
covered include word frequencies; sounds and sound symbolism; the structure of
words; taboo words; lexical borrowing; words in dictionaries and thesauri;
word origins and change; place and personal names; nicknames; taxonomies; word
acquisition and bilingualism; words in the mind; word disorders; and word
games, puns, and puzzles. 

Words are the most basic of all linguistic units, the aspect of language of
which everyone is likely to be most conscious. A 'new' word that makes it into
the OED is prime news; when baby says its first word its parents reckon it has
started to speak; knowing a language is often taken to mean knowing its words;
and languages are seen to be related by the similarities between their words.
Up to the twentieth century linguistic description was mainly an account of
words and all the current subdivisions of linguistics have something to say
about them. A notable feature of human languages is the sheer vastness of
their word inventories, and scholars and writers have sometimes deliberately
increased the richness of their languages by coining or importing new items
into their word-hoards. The book presents scholarship and research in a manner
that meets the interests of students and professionals and satisfies the
curiosity of the educated reader.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Morphology
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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