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Thinking Geographically - (Continuum Studies in Geography Education) by Brendan Bartley & Rob Kitchin & Phil Hubbard (Paperback)

Thinking Geographically - (Continuum Studies in Geography Education) by  Brendan Bartley & Rob Kitchin & Phil Hubbard (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Thinking Geographically offers students and faculty alike an elegant, concise, and thorough overview of contemporary theoretical concerns in geography. Easily accessible to those unfamiliar with social theory, this volume "pushes the envelope" of understanding by sketching the contours of post-structuralist spatial thought, including such critical emerging topics as geographies of text, the body, money, and globalisation. Brief biographies of influential theorists demonstrate how ideas are embodied and personified. This volume is highly useful for courses in human geography, the history and status of the discipline, and will stand as a milestone in the discipline's conceptual understanding over the next decade or more."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book is an introduction to Word Grammar, a theory of language structure founded and developed by Dick Hudson. In this theory, language is a cognitive network - a network of concepts, words and meanings containing all the elements of a linguistic analysis. The theory of language is therefore embedded in a theory of knowledge, in which there are no boundaries between one form of knowledge and any other. The most controversial idea in Word Grammar syntax is that phrase structure is redundant, because all its work can be done by means of dependencies between individual words. Word-word dependency is therefore a key concept in Word Grammar, and the syntax and semantics of a sentence is built upon this foundation. Contributors to this volume are primarily Word Grammar grammarians from across the world. All the chapters here manifest theoretical potentialities of Word Grammar, exploring how powerful Word Grammar is to offer analysis for linguistic phenomena in various languages. The chapters come from varying perspectives and include work on a number of languages, including English, German, Japanese, Swahili, Turkish and Ancient Greek. Phenomena studied include verbal inflection, case agreement, extraction, construction and code-mixing. This collection will be of interest to academics encountering Word Grammar for the first time, or for those who are already familiar with this theory and are interested in reading how it has evolved and what its future may hold.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Brendan Bartley is Lecturers in Geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Phil Hubbard is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Loughborough. Rob Kitchin is Lecturer in Human Geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

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