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Introducción al lenguaje y a la lingüística

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Entre los innumerables y entusiastas lectores de la Introducción en la lingüística teórica (1971), del mismo autor, había surgido una insistente demanda de sucesivas ediciones revisadas con el fin de mantener la actualidad de la panorámica general y de las posiciones científicas de vanguardia allí contenidas a medida que surgiesen novedades merecedoras de suficiente atención. La verdad es que no cabe mejor evidencia sobre el impacto producido por ese memorable manual avanzado de lingüística.

Al aparecer ahora esta nueva Introducción, puede decirse que queda cubierto tan importante objetivo para un considerable período de tiempo. Pero ni es éste su propósito —ya que en ningún caso se excluyen ambas obras- ni siquiera cabe admitir que prime en ella un mero cometido actualizador. Pues aquí hay, además, un afán cabalmente logrado de cubrir numerosas disciplinas científicas (como, por ejemplo, la sociología, la neurofisiología, la psicología o la etnografía) que últimamente han cobrado inusitada beligerancia en cualquiera de los frentes que la lingüística mantiene abiertos, y hay, asimismo, un buen puñado de precisiones utilísimas en torno a prejuicios y a concepciones como mínimo precipitadas (mencionemos la del generativismo, por señalar sólo un ejemplo clamoroso) que disfrutan de una difusión a todas luces excesiva.

Aquí, John Lyons hace buena gala de su proverbial habilidad para ir a lo esencial de las diferentes y enrevesadas doctrinas que aduce y para presentarlo todo no sólo justamente situado en el conjunto y evaluado con nitidez, sino también frecuentemente analizado en sus conexiones y posibilidades más o menos inéditas. De todo ello pueden aprovecharse, pues, el lector absolutamente neófito (pero avisado), el estudiante ya atiborrado de convencionalismos académicos y, sin duda, el curioso experimentado en cualquier otro dominio del saber.

323 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

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August 9, 2013
God help you if you want to learn about linguistics on you're own. The book helps enormously, but half the time it's very dry and the other half it's technobabble (or linguobabble, I guess) and it doesn't do a good job of reminding you of things you were supposed to have learned earlier on. For example, I took a break between chapter three and chapter four, and forgot most of the stuff from the earlier chapters. I had to go back and reread them. I decided to start taking notes, and that helped, but it would've been nice for the exercises in the book to be a bit more clearly laid out.

But it did have some nice exercises, overall great presentation of material, and I did learn a lot.
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February 18, 2022
This is a scientific book that you feel the author's presence in an unexpected way when you read it. Unlike usual books you read on this subject, it is not rewriting a pre-determined syllabus; it is not a personal discovery or an intuitive monologue; it is a narrow and exciting path between the two.
Another nice thing about this book is that the author generously shares his ideas with you at every stage of their rawness or maturity.
This book is a call to talk about language and linguistics with someone who knows more than you but still has the patience to make a dialogue with you.
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May 8, 2016
Oh! this book is outstandingly elucidated and detailed about the so-called "linguistics" . I really did whatever it took me, and finally I got it.
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December 10, 2015
This book was published in 1981, when the term morphology was still a little new and uncomfortable to linguists. This has to be borne in mind before reading this book.
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