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Article: Reflections on Language.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Reflections on Language. Ed. by STUART HIRSCHBERG and TERRY HIRSCHBERG. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1999. xxxix + 632 pp. 19.99 [pounds sterling].
All undergraduate students of Modern Languages or English should follow a course that introduces them to the nature and functions of language, but it is not an easy task to find an appropriate course-book, not all introductory texts for students of linguistics being suitable for this purpose. Is a reader such as this is a possible contender, and what view of language emerges from it?
The volume contains a wide variety of accessible articles on language, this heterogeneity manifesting itself in ...