An Introduction to Language

✍ Scribed by Averill, Nicki;Hazen, Kirk

Publisher: Wiley Blackwell
Year: 2015;2014
Tongue: English
Series: Linguistics in the world
Edition: First edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works – its sounds, words, structures, and phrases – all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture.

Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language, inviting students to consider what qualities of language comprise everyday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, or conversation

Helps shape our understanding of what language is, how it works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essential to who we are

Includes exercises within each chapter to help readers explore key concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of all human language

Examines linguistic variation and change to illustrate social nuances and language-in-use, drawing primarily on examples from English

Avoids linguistic jargon, focusing instead on a broader and more...

✦ Table of Contents

Companion Website xiv Acknowledgments xv Note to Instructors xvii Preface: About the Book xix 1 Introduction 1 2 Sounds 31 3 Patterns of Sounds 73 4 Simple Words in the Lexicon 109 5 Idioms, Slang, and the English Lexicon 147 6 Words Made of Many Parts 177 7 Putting Pieces Together 217 8 Building Bigger Phrases 249 9 From Phrases to Meaning 295 10 The Winding Paths of Language in Education 327 11 The Life Cycles of Language 361 Glossary 395 Index 421

✦ Subjects

Linguistics;Livres électroniques

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