Comparative Linguistics (Comparative Analysis)

Author: (English) James (James, C.)
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Comparative Analysis is a work published by Carl James in 1980, which provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction and review of a relatively young branch of linguistics—comparative analysis. Although it was published a long time ago, it remains a theoretically significant historical work for linguists studying comparative linguistics. This book is not a purely theoretical work on comparative linguistics, and its theoretical foundation is also relatively weak. Most of its content describes and analyzes the different views of various scholars, with a considerable amount of mixed and synthesized elements in its theoretical system, revealing the early stages of immaturity in this emerging discipline. Here, it is a theoretical review aimed at practical application rather than a purely theoretical work. Readers should learn from it the numerous questions raised for comparative research and the attempts to solve these problems, rather than its theoretical system itself. For more recent developments in the theory of comparative linguistics, you can refer to the new works on comparative linguistics listed in the references after this article. Comparative Analysis is divided into 7 chapters, which are:
Chapter 1: What is Comparative Analysis?
Chapter 2: The Psychological Basis of Comparative Analysis
Chapter 3: The Linguistic Content of Comparative Analysis
Chapter 4: Micro-level Comparative Linguistic Analysis
Chapter 5: Macro-level Comparative Linguistic Analysis
Chapter 6: The Application of Comparative Analysis in Teaching
Chapter 7: Controversial Issues.