How to Study Linguistics: A Guide to Study Linguistics

✍ Scribed by Geoffrey Finch

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 260
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Intended primarily for newcomers to the subject, but with new material designed to help the more advanced reader, How to Study Linguistics is written in a refreshing and engaging style. It assumes no prior knowledge and contains many useful suggestions for developing a secure understanding of the subject. Chapters discuss strategies for studying phonology, syntax, and semantics, and for pursuing branches of linguistics, such as sociolinguistics, stylistics, and psycholinguistics, as well as practical advice on writing essays. The book also includes a glossary to aid learning and revision.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
General Editors’ Preface......Page 11
1 Beginning Linguistics......Page 12
2.1 Language and competence......Page 23
2.2.1 Micro functions......Page 32
2.2.2 Macro functions......Page 51
Further reading......Page 55
Notes......Page 56
3.1 Introduction: the nature of sound......Page 57
3.2 Approaching speech sounds......Page 61
3.3 Sounds and the alphabet......Page 65
3.4 Developing a phonemic alphabet......Page 71
3.4.1 Minimal pairs......Page 76
3.5 The phonemic alphabet......Page 77
3.5.1 Describing phonemes......Page 80
3.6 Sounds in connected speech......Page 90
3.7 Final summary......Page 93
Notes......Page 94
4.1 Introduction: beginning syntax......Page 95
4.2 Formalist approaches to syntax......Page 102
4.2.1 Developing a constituent grammar......Page 105
4.3 Functional approaches to syntax......Page 123
4.3.1 Developing a functional grammar......Page 125
4.4 Conclusion and final summary......Page 135
Further reading......Page 136
Note......Page 137
5.1 Introduction: the problem of ‘meaning’......Page 138
5.2 Studying semantics......Page 142
5.2.1 Working with sense......Page 144
5.2.2 Sense relations......Page 151
5.2.3 Processes of semantic change......Page 159
5.2.4 The role of reference......Page 162
5.3 Studying pragmatics......Page 164
5.3.1 The cooperative principle......Page 168
5.3.2 Speech acts......Page 171
5.4 Final conclusion and summary......Page 173
Further reading......Page 175
6.1 Introduction......Page 177
6.2.1 Distinctive feature analysis......Page 178
6.2.2 Intonation......Page 181
6.3.1 Morphology......Page 187
6.3.2 X bar syntax......Page 190
6.3.3 Transformational grammar......Page 202
6.4.1 Meaning and syntax......Page 205
6.4.2 Meaning and logic......Page 208
6.5.1 Studying sociolinguistics......Page 215
6.5.2 Studying stylistics......Page 221
6.5.3 Studying psycholinguistics......Page 225
Further reading......Page 228
Note......Page 229
7 How to Write a Linguistics Essay......Page 230
Appendix: The International Phonetic Alphabet......Page 238
A......Page 239
C......Page 240
D......Page 242
F......Page 243
I......Page 244
L......Page 245
N......Page 246
P......Page 247
S......Page 249
T......Page 251
Y......Page 252
References......Page 253
C......Page 255
I......Page 256
N......Page 257
S......Page 258
V......Page 259
Y......Page 260

✦ Subjects

Языки и языкознание;Лингвистика;Основы языкознания;