An introduction to language and linguistics : breaking the language spell /
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| Format: | Llibre |
| Idioma: | English |
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London ; New York :
Continuum,
2005.
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| Col·lecció: | Open linguistics series
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| Accés en línia: | Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Taula de continguts:
- Machine derived contents note: Part I: Magic 1
- I The Spell 3
- Thought and sound with language in between 4
- Under the spell of language 7
- The spell is cast: linguistic awareness and linguistic belief 12
- More information 26
- 2 Linguistics 28
- Linguistics, applied linguistics and the language professions 29
- Breaking the spell: linguistic knowledge 34
- More information 45
- Part II: Words 47
- 3 Names, Words and Things 49
- Problems with names 49
- Words, meanings and thought 57
- So what is a word? 76
- More information 84
- 4 Where Words Come From 85
- How children put names and things together 85
- Behind The Dictionary 94
- More information 108
- 5 Forming Words 110
- Word forms: speech and spelling 110
- Creating new lexical forms 122
- More information 128
- Part III: Grammar 131
- 6 Morphology 133
- Morphological combination 133
- Where affixes come from 141
- More information 153
- 7 Syntax 154
- Syntactic combination 155
- Syntax and pragmatics: conventional meaning
- in novel contexts 171
- Syntactic rules 177
- More information 185
- 8 From DNA to Discourse Community 187
- Acquiring the rules 187
- Pragmatics: sentences in use 197
- More information 208
- Part IV: Babel 209
- 9 Interlinguistic Diversity 211
- Languages of the world 212
- Multilingualism 222
- More information 236
- 10 Diversity Within 238
- Styles and registers 239
- Dialects and accents 251
- Linguistic diversity, education and power 257
- More information 268
- 11 The Spell Unbroken 270
- Language biology 271
- Language evolution 279
- Living under the Language Spell 289
- More information 298.