Finnegan Ruth (The Open University Uk) - Communicating The Multiple Modes Of Human Communication - Paperback Semantics Barcode: 9780367442712

Barcode: 9780367442712

These prescriptions are not just commands

A Critical Approach To Linguistic Transgression

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Using the full range of resources of art history archaeology and philology this book details the familiar - - mythic heroes and heroines famous philosophers and poets as well as classical art and architecture - - and introduces the less - well - known aspects of ancient Greece notably the civilizations of the Bronze and Dark Ages and even the earliest form of written Greek - - Linear B

Finnegan Ruth (The Open University Uk) - Communicating The Multiple Modes Of Human Communication - Paperback Semantics Barcode: 9780367442712Binding: Paperback Description: Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word centred models to present it as predominantly a matter of words. This Finnegan argues seriously underestimates the far reaching multi modal qualities of human interconnecting and the senses of touch olfaction and above all audition and vision that we draw on. In an authoritative and readable account Ruth Finnegan brings together research from linguistic