Author: Siobhan Chapma
Publisher: Edinburgh University Pre
Keywords: language, philosophy, linguistics, thinkers, key
Number of Pages: 282
Published: 2005-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0748617582
ISBN-13: 9780748617586

Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language is a unique and accessible reference guide to the work of figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language. It includes eighty entries on individual thinkers in the Western tradition, ranging from antiquity to the present day, chosen because of their impact on the description or theory of language. Each entry explains the main ideas of the thinker, outlining their development and assessing their significance and influence. Brief biographical details place the subject in his or her cultural and histor

Author: Vyvyan Evans
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
Keywords: linguistics, cognitive
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2006-02-08
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ISBN-10: 0748618325
ISBN-13: 9780748618323

Author: Simon Frith
Publisher: EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
Keywords: copyright, music
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-06-25
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ISBN-10: 0748618139
ISBN-13: 9780748618132

Author: Peter S. Groff
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: philosophy, islamic
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $108.00
ISBN-10: 0748622160
ISBN-13: 9780748622160

A unique introductory guide to the rich, complex and diverse tradition of Islamic philosophy. Islamic Philosophy A-Z comprises over a hundred concise entries, alphabetically ordered and cross-referenced for easy access. All the essential aspects of Islamic philosophy are covered here: key figures, schools, concepts, topics, and issues. Articles on the Peripatetics, Isma’ilis, Illuminationists, Sufis, kalam theologians and later modern thinkers are supplemented by entries on classical Greek influences as well as Jewish philosophers who lived and worked in the Islamic world. Topical entrie

Author: Anthony Carty
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: english, dialects, zealand, new
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-12-15
List price: $100.00
ISBN-10: 0748625291
ISBN-13: 9780748625291

This book is a comprehensive but accessible description of English as it is spoken in New Zealand. New Zealand English is one of the youngest native speaker varieties of English, and is the only variety of English where there is recorded evidence of its entire history. It shares some features with other Southern Hemisphere varieties of English such as Australian English and South African English, but is also clearly distinct from these. For the past two decades extensive research has focused on the evolution and ongoing development of the variety. New Zealand English presents the results of th

Author: Sailaja Pingali
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: english, dialects, indian
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-02-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 074862595X
ISBN-13: 9780748625956

Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers, yet during its 400-year history, it has acquired its own character while still looking to native varieties of English for its norms. Pinjali Sailaja discusses the complex nature of Indian English, which is not really a monolithic entity. He distinguishes between standard and non-standard varieties and provides an overview of their salient features.

Authors:Brian Taylor, Brian Taylor,
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Keywords: parliament, scottish, road
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-03-15
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0748617590
ISBN-13: 9780748617593

This important book provides an invaluable guide to the establishment of Scotland s Parliament. First published in 1999, this revised and updated edition follows the road to devolution -with fresh detail of the obstacles that stood in the way. With his unique insight, gained in twenty five years of covering Scottish politics as a journalist, Taylor offers an analysis of the background to the most monumental political change in Scotland since the Union.