Language: A Modern Synthesis

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The role of language in human affairs - the ways in which people communicate with one another - is the subject of this fascinating book by an eminent linguist. By relating language to the other contemporary disciplines dealing with speech and its functions - the theory of communication, statistics, symbolic logic, acoustics and neurology - Professor Whatmough has produced a challenging and comprehensive survey of a field which is rapidly becoming one of the great sciences of modern life.Joshua Whatmough is widely known as head of the Department of Linguistics and Professor of Comparative Philology of Harvard. Born and educated in England, he has taught at various American universities and is the author of many books and scholarly articles.