Read e-book online The Correct Language, Tojolabal (RLE Linguistics F: World PDF

By Louanna Furbee-Losee

ISBN-10: 0415727456

ISBN-13: 9780415727457

ISBN-10: 1138997773

ISBN-13: 9781138997776

Definitions of language cluster round non-contradictory perspectives: one who language is a shared code, a social entity, and the opposite that language is the information that permits a local speaker to supply and comprehend speech. In analyzing the language and tradition of the Tojolabal (Mayan) Indians of Mexico, this e-book argues that language is a cognitive procedure, as is tradition, of which language is yet a component. the writer is so much drawn to the interfaces among language and social phenomena and among language and different platforms of tradition, and demonstrates that learn at the dialectic among language and social context, and that among language and different structures of tradition, results in fruitful generalizations concerning the nature of language as a human capacity.

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