book notice

[mike]

BOOK NOTICE 

The Domain of Language 
by Michael Fortescue 
Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen 2002 
392 pages, hardbound. ISBN 87-7289-706-6. £30, $49 

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. 

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. 


A sample chapter of the book can be read at the following website:
http://www.cphling.dk/pers/mf/dom.sample.htm
<http://www.cphling.dk/pers/mf/dom.sample.htm>  



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