A practical guide to the construction of thesauri for use in information retrieval, written by leading experts in the field.
A comprehensive text on linguistics which includes sections on speech disorders, politeness, the language of advertising and phonetics.
In this revised edition, Jean Aitchison has taken account of the considerable changes in Chomsky’s recent ideas. As a result, the chapters on grammatical innateness, child language acquisition and speech comprehension have been largely rewritten.