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OverviewThis book deals with various > traditions of grammatical thought across acrose the globe. Its main perspective is a cross-cultural sociolinguistic and anthropological linguistic account of >. The concept (relating to Bruno Liebich's term 'Einheimische Grammatik') is taken in its widest sense here to account for a continua of forms and ways of language-oriented research, various degrees of systematic reflection on language structure and use, the culture-specific ingredients of different grammatical >, linguistic and folk-linguistic speculation, language awareness, linguistic ideologies and similar endeavours. Some assumptions underlying the central hypotheses of this book are: -- Linguistics, every grammatical description, has a strong cultural binding. -- It is worthwhile to describe the culturally bound differences in a systematic fashion. -- There are indigenous grammars and grammarians of entirely different denominations than what Western linguists are accustomed to dealing with. -- A heuristic continua of indigenous grammar can be set up which is worth being studied by linguists in a cross-cultural comparative fashion. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hannes KniffkaPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing ISBN: 9780820454375ISBN 10: 0820454370 Pages: 623 Publication Date: 01 December 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |