Description
Book SynopsisThis volume is dedicated to Professor Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Head of the Department of English and General Linguistics at the University of Łódź, on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It includes texts written by his students, colleagues and friends, dealing with a variety of urgent, widely discussed topics in the contemporary language studies. Spanning contributions from language history, philosophy, rhetoric and argumentation, methodology, and discourse studies, it provides an authoritative outline of the field and a timely response to the existing challenges, thus making for a concise handbook of modern linguistics. It is recommended to graduate students of philology, as well as researchers working in linguistics and other disciplines within the broad spectrum of humanities and social sciences.
Table of Contentslinguistics – language history – philosophy of language – argumentation – rhetoric – methodology – discourse studies – challenges in language analysis – interdisciplinarity – domains of linguistics – research procedures – methods of linguistics – linguistic theory – language data
