Language : its structure and use
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, Mass. :
Thomson Wadsworth ,
c2008
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| Edition: | 5th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Languages and linguistics
- 2. Words and their parts: lexicon and morphology
- 3. The sounds of languages: phonetics
- 4. Sound systems of language: phonology
- 5. The stuructures and function of pharase and sentences: syntax
- 6. The study of meaning: semantics
- 7. Language universal and language typology
- 8. Information structure and pragmatics
- 9. Speech acts and conversation
- 10. Language variation across situations of use: registers and styles
- 11. Language variation among social groups: dialects
- 12. Writing
- 13. Language change over time: historical linguistics
- 14. Historical development in english
- 15. Acquiring first and second languages