{"product_id":"grammar-west-to-east-edward-mcdonald-9789811375958","title":"Grammar West to East: The Investigation of Linguistic Meaning in European and Chinese Traditions","description":"Acknowledgments.- Briefing Key issues and organisational features of this book.- Prelude Framing the problem of language and meaning.- Part I Traditions of language study: Graeco-Roman vis-à-vis Sinitic.- Chapter 1 Language, writing and metaphors for language.- Snapshot 1 Dialectic; Analogy v. anomaly.- Chapter 2 Language in education and the foundations of linguistic scholarship.- Snapshot 2 Ordering of words; Language as manifestation of the way.- Chapter 3 The discovery of language history.- Snapshot 3 Characters and order of universe; Grammatical form as expression of mind.- Chapter 4 From philology to linguistics.- Interlude Establishing a modern paradigm.- Part II The making of modern grammatics: developing tools for the analysis of wording.- Chapter 5 From \"(single) articulation\" to \"double articulation\" meaning ↔ wording ↔ sound.- Chapter 6 \"Parts of speech\" and \"word classes\" defining basic categories for grammatical analysis.- Chapter 7 \"Word grammar\" and \"clause grammar\" separating morphological from syntactic patterning.- Chapter 8 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations: structure and system.- Postlude The long 20th century of linguistics.- Debriefing The history of linguistics and the study of language.- References.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Edward McDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 981137595X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789811375958\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d","brand":"Edward McDonald","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44790363324671,"sku":"9789811375958","price":84.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0bac9eb8-13f5-4a92-82ff-86fa1808b30d.jpg?v=1707288719","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grammar-west-to-east-edward-mcdonald-9789811375958","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}