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From the dawn of time to the mid-twentieth century, Mario Pei discusses the formation and development of language - the weapon by which mankind has advanced from savagery to civilization.
Guiraud defines semiology as the science of signs and sign systems. He starts from Saussure's idea that language is the model for the study of all other signs.
The author bases his research on the insight that - if nothing changes - in about a hundred years, out of today's approximately 5,000 living languages, half of them will die out. He is particularly worried about the fact that this cataclysm is taking plac
In this book, Ivo Pranjković (b. 1947), one of the most influential contemporary Croatian linguists, brings a lucid, polemical and chronicling panorama of Croatian linguistics from the mid-20th century to the early 1990s.
Linguistic and cultural essays on transmediality
This book is a collection of unusual stories about the language, its grammatical structure and spelling. Here, the reader is not a mere recipient of grammar lessons, but an engaged participant in the exciting discovery of the essence of linguistic phenome