{"product_id":"dynamic-linguistics","title":"Dynamic Linguistics","description":"Analysis of language as a combination of both a structural and a lexical component overlooks a third all-encompassing aspect: dynamics. \u003ci\u003eDynamic Linguistics \u003c\/i\u003eapproaches the description of the complex phenomenon that is human language by focusing on this important but often neglected aspect.\u003cbr\u003e This book charts the belated recognition of the importance of \u003ci\u003edynamic synchrony \u003c\/i\u003ein twentieth-century linguistics and discusses two other key concepts in some detail: \u003ci\u003espeech community \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003elanguage structure\u003c\/i\u003e. Because of their vital role in the development of a dynamic approach to linguistics, the three linguists William Labov, André Martinet and Roman Jakobson are featured, in particular Martinet in whose later writings – neglected in the English-speaking world – the fullest appreciation of the dynamics of language to date are found. A sustained attempt is also made to chronicle precursors, between the nineteenth century and the 1970s, who provided inspiration for these three scholars in the development of a dynamic approach to linguistic description and analysis.\u003cbr\u003e The dynamic approach to linguistics is intended to help consolidate functional structuralists, geolinguists, sociolinguists and all other empirically minded linguists within a broader theoretical framework as well as playing a part in reversing the overformalism of the simplistic structuralist framework which has dominated, and continues to dominate, present-day linguistic description.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231931355480,"sku":"9783034317054","price":83.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9783034317054.jpg?v=1777182339","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/dynamic-linguistics","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}