Book Series in Communication Studies
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Rationality and the Literate Mind
This book re-examines the old debate about the relationship between rationality and literacy. Does writing "restructure consciousness?" Do preliterate societies have a different "mind-set" from…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99901-4 (Routledge)
Language Teaching
Integrational Linguistic Approaches
This book demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics’ shunning of both…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95753-3 (Routledge)
Language and History
Integrationist Perspectives
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… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31762-7 (Routledge)
The Written Language Bias in Linguistics
Its Nature, Origins and Transformations
Linguists routinely emphasise the primacy of speech over writing. Yet, most linguists have analysed spoken language, as well as language in general, applying theories and… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-34992-5 (Routledge)
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Rethinking Linguistics
This book deals with the need to rethink the aims and methods of contemporary linguistics. Orthodox linguists' discussions of linguistic form fail to exemplify how… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1680-7 (Routledge)
The Language Myth in Western Culture
The basic claim of this book is that for 2000 years and more the western tradition has relied on two very dubious assumptions about human… read more2001 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1453-7 (Routledge)
Words - An Integrational Approach
Aims to reorient the study of language by taking into serious consideration the perspective on linguistic matters taken by lay speakers themselves, as a response… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-7007-1376-9 (Routledge)