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Laurie Bauer

Auteur van Language Myths

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Laurie Bauer is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. I.S.P. Nation is Emeritus Professor of Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Werken van Laurie Bauer

Language Myths (1998) — Redacteur — 555 exemplaren
Introducing Linguistic Morphology (1988) 44 exemplaren
English Word-Formation (1983) 33 exemplaren
Language Matters (2006) 15 exemplaren
Vocabulary (Language Workbooks) (1998) 11 exemplaren
Beginning Linguistics (2012) 8 exemplaren
Morphological Productivity (2001) 6 exemplaren
A Glossary Of Morphology (2004) 6 exemplaren
Semantics of complex words (2015) 5 exemplaren

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Such a treat: 21 short essays addressing common linguistic misunderstandings, misapprehensions and misbeliefs. Everything you thought you knew about languages (yours and others) is wrong and now we know why. And so entertainingly presented! This book costs so little and is so filled with useful information in so few pages that there's no excuse for not learning what you shouldn't believe about words, and why.
 
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majackson | 8 andere besprekingen | Jun 13, 2019 |
Mildly informative and mildly entertaining book about some widely held language myths. Overall it takes aim at the premise that there are permanent rules for a language (the prescriptive approach) but this isn't exactly new news. Language mavens, however, will enjoy it.
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annbury | 8 andere besprekingen | Sep 2, 2010 |
A great little book doing away with misconceptions most people have about language. Since it's a collection of essays, there is variation in style and quality, but overall it's very good. The book could have done with tighter editing, however.
 
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klai | 8 andere besprekingen | Jul 3, 2010 |
This book has a good heart, and a few really solid essays--Dennis Preston (funny guy, incidentally) on prestige ranking of American accents and JK Chambers on TV's non-effect on language change (the reason I bought it originally, and while a little offended that a certain nameless someone referred me to the shibboleths book to prove the point, I am also convinced). Some of the others are definitely kindergarten, and I don't mean for language scholars, but surely even the gen-pub doesn't needto be told that some languages aren't intrinsically "harder" or "more expressive" or "faster" or "more primitive" than others, and that language change isn't language decline? Then I think about how quickly I can come up with five people who have said just the opposite on one of these matters in the last six weeks, and how stubborn they were, and I'm like "oh yeah." So there is definitely a place for this book, even if I suspect most of the prescriptivists and cavilers will require more convincing than it provides. And it's a quick read.… (meer)
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MeditationesMartini | 8 andere besprekingen | Jun 13, 2009 |

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