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1. Language and History

   Integrationist Perspectives

   Edited by Nigel Love

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   When linguistics was first established as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, it was envisaged as an essentially historical study. Languages were to be treated as historical objects, evolving through gradual but constant processes of change over long periods of time. In recent years,...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought Volume II

   The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Century

   By John E. Joseph, Nigel Love, Talbot J Taylor

   Series: History of Linguistic Thought

   Landmarks in Linguistic Thought II introduces the major issues and themes that have determined the development of Western thinking about language, meaning and communication in the twentieth century.Each chapter contains an extract from a 'landmark' text followed by a commentary, which places the...

   Published May 30th 2001 by Routledge