Understanding Language: A Basic Course in Linguistics (Second Edition)

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Grace Winkler

Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 345
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Defining and Acquiring Language
1 What Every Native Speaker Secretly Understands
2 Human Language versus Animal Communication Systems
3 Language Acquisition
Part II Structures of Language
4 Phonetics
5 Morphology: The Structure of Words
6 Grammar
7 The History of English
Part III Language in Use
8 Semantics: Language and Meaning
9 Pragmatics: Language in Use
10 Electronic-Mediated Communication andIts Effects on Language
11 Language Variation and Change
Bibliography
Index

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