Re: effects of prescriptivism

sam c wrote:
>
> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> > Please read Sapir's *Language* (1921; now a Dover reprint!) and Robert
> > A. Hall, Jr.,'s *Linguistics and Your Language* (1951: original title:
> > "Leave Your Language Alone!*). You can't _imagine_ what language study
> > was like 50-100 years ago, when linguistics was a-borning.
>
> i've not read anything from that period yet, so these suggestions are a
> great help.
>
> > I see you're in .uk. I don't know what the equivalents were over there
> > back then -- possibly J. R. Firth's *Tongues of Men* and *Speech*, which
> > were reprinted together as a little white Oxford paperback; nowadays,
> > just about anything by Jean Aitchison will make it clear.
>
> i'll start with Sapir and see where he leads me.

He won't actually lead you anywhere, since it was a popular book with no
references. But it is _the_ classic introduction to the study of
language.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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