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Introduction to English linguistics /
This highly successful textbook introduces university students to English linguistics, with a hands-on didactic orientation. It covers the core areas of structural linguistics, with extensions to historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. The updated third edition contains a new...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts :
De Gruyter Mouton,
2015.
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| Edición: | Third, revised and enlarged edition. |
| Colección: | Mouton textbook.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of contents; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; Abbreviations and notational conventions; Introduction: what this book is about and how it can be used; 1 The sounds: phonetics; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Spelling vs. pronunciation: the representation of speech sounds; 1.3 Producing sounds; 1.3.1 The nature of speech sounds; 1.3.2 The vocal tract; 1.4 How sounds differ from each other: the classification of speech sounds; 1.4.1 The classification of consonants; 1.4.2 The classification of vowels; 1.5 Conclusion; Further reading.
- Exercises2 The sound system: phonology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Introducing order into the chaos: the phoneme; 2.3 The key to finding the order; 2.3.1 Minimal pairs; 2.3.2 Distributional characteristics of allophones; 2.3.3 Observing allophonic alternations in different word forms; 2.4 More about the sound system of English; 2.4.1 Allophones of /l/; 2.4.2 Stop phonemes; 2.4.3 A slightly more complex case: /?/; 2.5 The syllable; 2.5.1 The structure of the syllable; 2.5.2 Syllabification; 2.5.3 The syllable and allophonic processes: /l/ revisited; 2.6 Conclusion; Further reading; Exercises.
- 3 The structure of words: morphology3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Minimal building blocks: morphemes; 3.3 Types of morphemes; 3.4 Morphological analysis of words; 3.5 Realisation of morphemes: allomorphs; 3.6 Morphological processes: inflection and derivation; 3.7 Word-formation; 3.7.1 What is word-formation?; 3.7.2 Affixation; 3.7.3 Compounding; 3.7.4 Conversion; 3.7.5 Shortening; 3.8 Conclusion; Further reading; Exercises; 4 The structure of sentences: syntax; 4.1 Introduction: rules and grammar; 4.2 The building blocks: words and phrases; 4.2.1 Constituency tests and phrases.
- 4.2.2 The internal structure of phrases4.3 The functional level: subjects, objects, adverbials, predicates, complements; 4.4 The mapping of form and function; 4.5 Conclusion; Further reading; Exercises; 5 The meaning of words and sentences: semantics; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 What does 'meaning' mean? Words, concepts and referents; 5.3 Compositional and non-compositional meaning; 5.4 The network: organising word meaning; 5.4.1 Words and other words; 5.4.2 Same or different?; 5.5 Conclusion; Further reading; Exercises; 6 Studying language in use: pragmatics; 6.1 Introduction.
- 6.2 Expressing intentions through language6.2.1 Using language to act: speech acts; 6.2.2 Speech acts: a closer look; 6.2.3 Classifying speech acts; 6.2.4 Realisations of speech acts: direct and indirect speech acts; 6.2.5 Performing speech acts successfully: felicity conditions; 6.3 Understanding utterance meaning; 6.4 Exploring pragmatic principles; 6.4.1 The Cooperative Principle; 6.4.2 Politeness; 6.5 Conclusion; Further reading; Exercises; 7 Extensions and applications: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics; 7.1 Introduction.