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Language: Communication and Human Behavior: The Linguistic Essays of William Diver

Language: Communication and Human Behavior: The Linguistic Essays of William Diver

Huffman, Alan
Davis, Joseph

Hardcover

PhilosophyEtymology

ISBN10: 9004208585
ISBN13: 9789004208582
Publisher: Brill
Published: Oct 14 2011
Pages: 566
Weight: 2.14
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
William Diver of Columbia University (1921-1995) critiqued the very roots of traditional and contemporary linguistics and founded a school of thought that aims for radical aposteriorism in accounting for the distribution of linguistic forms in authentic text. Grammatical and phonological analyses of Homeric Greek, Classical Latin, and Modern English reveal language to be an instrument whose structure is shaped by its communicative function and by the peculiarly human characteristics of its users. Diver's foundational works, many never before published, appear here newly edited and annotated, with introductions by the editors. The volume presents for the first time to a wide audience the depth and originality of Diver's iconoclastic thought.

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