Linguistics for Everyone: An Introduction
LINGUISTICS FOR EVERYONE, 2E, International Edition connects the study of linguistics to the language you use every day. The text is very user-friendly: casual writing style, logical presentation of material, balance of theoretical and practical, entertaining information, and lots of ideas and activ...
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| Language: | English |
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Wadsworth, Cencage Learning
2013
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| Edition: | Second edition |
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Table of Contents:
- What is language and how do we study it
- The human capacity for language
- Phonetics: describing sounds
- Phonology: the sound patterns of language
- Morphology: words and their parts
- Morphological typology and word formation
- Syntax: heads and phrases
- Syntax: phrase structure and syntactic rules
- Semantics: making meaning with words
- Semantics and pragmatics: making meaning with sentences
- The early story of English
- English goes global
- Representing language: the written word
- The life cycle of language