Jean Aitchison
Sprachwissenschaftlerin, Professor of Language and Communication in the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, emeritiert.
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
(Sozio-)historische Linguistik, Sprachwandel, Sprache und Geist, Psycholinguistik (Spracherwerb, Sprachproduktion, Sprachverstehen, Lexikon)
Buchpublikationen:
New media language (edited with Diana M. Lewis). London and New York.: Routledge.
Words in the mind: An introduction to the mental lexicon. 3rd edition. Oxford
and New York: Basil Blackwell, 1987/2003.
Language change: Progress or decay? 3rd edition (1st edition1981). Cambridge,
New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
The articulate mammal: An introduction to psycholinguistics.4th edition (1st
edition 1976). London and New York: Routledge, 1998.
The language web: The power and problem of words. 1996 BBC Reith lectures.
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1997.s
The seeds of speech: Language origin and evolution. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne:
Cambridge University Press, 1996.