The Language Impact - Evolution -- System -- Discourse - Alwin Frank Fill
3. Religion, Philosophy and Language Impact Theories
The Language Impact - Evolution -- System -- Discourse - Alwin Frank Fill
Alwin Frank Fill [+]
University of Graz
Alwin Frank Fill is Professor Emeritus of English Linguistics at the University of Graz, Austria. His previous books include Ökolinguistik: Eine Einführung (Gunter Narr, 1993), Das Prinzip Spannung (Gunter Narr, 2003 (2nd ed. 2007)) and (co-edited together with Peter Muhlhäusler) The Ecolinguistics Reader (Continuum, 2001).
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Linguistics has a long tradition dating back to the Babylonian, the Hebrew and the Arabian cultures of Antiquity. In China, Japan and particularly India (with Panini as the greatest representative), language began to be studied more than 2500 years ago. But the early ‘linguists’ concerned themselves chiefly with grammar, with the sounds and the words of language, not so much with the effect language may have on the world (see the relevant chapters in Koerner and Asher eds 1995).