For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics is a comprehensive and engaging introduction to human language and the role of linguistics in understanding its fundamental design, acquisition and functions.
For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics is a comprehensive and engaging introduction to human language and the role of linguistics in understanding its fundamental design, acquisition and functions.
Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Victoria, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her main areas of research are grammatical change in Germanic languages, the Pennsylvania German spoken by Amish/Mennonite communities in North America, the notion of linguistic taboo, popular perceptions about language, and the structure and history of English. She is a regular presenter of language segments on radio and TV.
Inhaltsangabe
Part I. 'Using Language to Expose Language': Setting the Scene: 1. What is language? 2. What linguists do 3. Ways to study language Part II. 'In the Beginning Was the Word': Words, Word Structure, and Meaning: 4. What's in a word? 5. Morphology: the structure of words 6. Semantics: the meaning of words Part III. 'The Deep Grooves of Language': Sounds and Grammar: 7. Phonetics 8. Phonology: the sound system 9. Syntax: the structure of sentences Part IV. 'Language Is a Social Fact': Variation and Change: 10. Variation and identity 11. Structure across time 12. Languages and cultures in contact Part V. 'Language That Rolls up its Sleeves': Language at Work: 13. Language, text and interaction 14. Language, context and understanding 15. Language and social values Part VI. 'Language Is the Dress of Thought': Language, Mind and World: 16. Language, the mind and the brain 17. Language acquisition 18. Computational linguistics.
Part I. 'Using Language to Expose Language': Setting the Scene: 1. What is language? 2. What linguists do 3. Ways to study language Part II. 'In the Beginning Was the Word': Words, Word Structure, and Meaning: 4. What's in a word? 5. Morphology: the structure of words 6. Semantics: the meaning of words Part III. 'The Deep Grooves of Language': Sounds and Grammar: 7. Phonetics 8. Phonology: the sound system 9. Syntax: the structure of sentences Part IV. 'Language Is a Social Fact': Variation and Change: 10. Variation and identity 11. Structure across time 12. Languages and cultures in contact Part V. 'Language That Rolls up its Sleeves': Language at Work: 13. Language, text and interaction 14. Language, context and understanding 15. Language and social values Part VI. 'Language Is the Dress of Thought': Language, Mind and World: 16. Language, the mind and the brain 17. Language acquisition 18. Computational linguistics.
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