33.3762, Books: Beyond Babel: Clark, Gordon (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:41:21
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Beyond Babel: Clark, Gordon (eds.)

 


Title: Beyond Babel 
Subtitle: Scholarly organizations and the study of languages and literatures 
Series Title: FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures   18  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/fillm.18 


Editor: Tom Clark
Editor: Paddy Gordon

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027256997 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027256997 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027256997 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212658 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212658 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027212658 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

The contribution that scholarly organizations make to the study of languages
and literatures is a service to the value of systematically learning and using
"meaning"—understanding that meaning operates in systems. Constructively
speaking, these organizations support the teaching and research of our world’s
experts in grammar, genre, medium, production, reception, exchange, critique,
appreciation, and so on. More defensively, they are bulwarks against systems
of misinformation, against the empowerment of misrepresentation and distrust
between people.The chapters in this volume range from the Old Testament to
Facebook and from East Asia to West Africa via Australia, the Americas, and
Europe. The scholarly strength forged across that range speaks to similar
strengths that so many scholarly organizations devoted to studies in languages
and literatures have cultivated and maintained—often in the face of government
indifference or hostility towards the Humanities. "Beyond Babel" makes a
powerful case for their potential.
 



Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics
                     Ling & Literature
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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