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Language Chance As A Phenomenon Of The Third Kind by ARLETA ADAMSKA-SAŁACIAK is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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s (henceforth RK's) book 1 is an exposition of an approach to language change which the author has been developing for a few years now, and which he has already presented in considerable detail in some earlier publications (e.g. Keller 1985 and 1989). The approach, which goes back in its essentials to ideas developed by Scottish moral philosophy of the 18th Century, is to treat language and language change äs "phenomena of the third kind" (i.e. ones that are, in Adam Ferguson's words, results of human action but not of human design), and to explain the genesis and evolution of language by means of so-called u conjectural history" or "invisible-hand explanation" One may reveal at the outset that the author makes an extremely convincing case for his view, in a book that is not only well argued, but also highly readable. The main body of the book falls into two parts, each consisting of three chapters. It is preceded by a foreword and followed by a bibliography, an index of names and an index of topics. In the following, I shall summarize the content of the individual chapters, offering comments regarding certain issues äs I go along, and then proceed to present some general reflectio
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- Author
- ARLETA ADAMSKA-SAŁACIAK
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)