Language and history: intergrationist perspectives
London; New York
Routledge
2006
viii, 242 p.: ill
Routledge advances in communication and linguistic theory
Includes bibliographical references and index
edited by Nigel Love
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Language, history, and language and history / Nigel Love -- The end of linear narrative? : Reflections on the historiography of English / Roger Lass -- History and comparative philology / Roy Harris -- Word-stories : etymology as history / Christopher Hutton -- Language, object or event? : the integration of language and life / Michael R. Walrod -- Indeterminacy of meaning and semantic change / Edda Weigand -- On the cusp : Antoine Meillet as a sociologist of language / Robert McColl Millar -- The grammatical being called a nation : history and the construction of political and linguistic nationalism / John E. Joseph -- How to make history with words / Roy Harris -- Talking about what happened / Talbot J. Taylor -- Part of the meaning/history of euro : integrational corpus linguistics / Michael Toolan -- Language and prehistory / Geoffrey Galt Harpham -- Bridges to history : biomechanical constraints in language / Stephen J. Cowley.