The routledge handbook of linguistics
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New York :
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What is linguistics?
- 2. Evolutionary linguistics: how language and languages got to be the way they are
- 3. Gesture and sign: utterance uses of visible bodily action
- 4. Writing systems: methods for recording language
- 5. Phonetics: the sounds humans make when speaking / Andrew Butcher
- 6. Phonology
- 7. Morphology: the structure of words
- 8. Syntax: putting words together
- 9. Syntax as the dynamics of language understanding
- 10. Semantics: the meaning of words and sentences
- 11. Lexical semantics today
- 12. Lexicography: the construction of dictionaries and thesauruses
- 13. Pragmatics: language use in context
- 14. The linguistics of politeness and social relations
- 15. Narrative and narrative structure
- 16. Anthropological linguistics and field linguistics
- 17. Sociolinguistics: language in social environments
- 18. Psycholinguistics: language and cognition
- 19. Neurolinguistics: mind, brain, and language
- 20. First language acquisition
- 21. Second language acquisition and applied linguistics
- 22. Historical linguistics and relationships among languages
- 23. Linguistic change in grammar
- 24. Language endangerment
- 25. Linguistic typology and language universals
- 26. Translating between languages
- 27. Structural linguistics
- 28. Biolinguistics
- 29. Cognitive linguistics
- 30. Functional linguistics
- 31. Computational linguistics
- 32. Corpus linguistics
- 33. Linguistics and philosophy
- 34. Linguistics and the law
- 35. Linguistics and politics
- 36. Linguistics and social media