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truizm Donating Member (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-26-04 09:55 PM
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Books on linguistics
Anyone have suggestions for introductory books on linguistics?
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muchacho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-26-04 09:58 PM
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1. On Language
On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1565844750/qid=1075172256/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-6629368-2149760?v=glance&s=books
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truizm Donating Member (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 01:14 PM
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5. Noam...
Are there any other Chomsky books (or others too) that discuss both politics and linguistics?
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truizm Donating Member (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-29-04 06:15 PM
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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-26-04 09:58 PM
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2. Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct...
Edited on Mon Jan-26-04 10:00 PM by Davis_X_Machina
...for psycholinguistics, and an old-fashioned but fun book, The Loom of Language, by Frederick Bodmer, for comparative and historical stuff.

Also worth looking for is an older edition of The American Heritage Dictionary, with Calvert Watkins' stuff on Indo-European roots.
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roughsatori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-26-04 10:48 PM
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3. "Language The Unknown: an Initiation into Linguistics"
By Julia Kristeva is one that I have enjoyed. Also I would recommend the biography of Ludwig Wittgenstein (one of my favorites) "The Duty of Genius" by Ray Monk. After that read what strikes you from the book that Wittgenstein has written.

Oh another favorite is Alfred Korzybski. Any of his lectures. But I love the time binding and his work on the verb "to be" and first person, singular pronoun "I." But I am ignorant of the actual field of linguistics--those are books that I love.
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muchacho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-27-04 07:33 AM
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4. Snow Crash
Also for a fun sci fi book involving linguistics I suggest Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash.
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