Language Latitude and Longitude

Author: Huashao
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: Renowned scholar Huashao has compiled over five decades of teaching and research achievements in this book. He analyzes the symbolic nature of language, the systematicity of linguistic symbols, the interrelationships between linguistic units, the regularity of language development, and the social attributes of language. Based on speech research, he discusses suprasymbolic units of language, pragmatics, and textual linguistics, clarifying numerous important concepts in contemporary linguistics and elucidating the fundamental attributes of language, thereby significantly advancing the development of modern linguistics. This book serves as both a mandatory textbook for university students majoring in linguistics and an essential reference for linguistics researchers.