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An Introduction to Linguistics and Language Studies /
This introductory textbook provides readers with a foundation in methods for analyzing and understanding language from various theoretical perspectives within linguistics and language studies. Its novel approach introduces systemic functional linguistics, text and discourse analysis, and formal appr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Oakville, CT :
Equinox Publishing Ltd.,
2011.
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| Colección: | Equinox textbooks and surveys in linguistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1; 1.1 Ferdinand de Saussure; 1.2 Noam Chomsky; 1.3 M.A.K. Halliday; 1.4 Conclusion; 1.5 References and further reading; 1.6 Some answers to the exercises; Chapter 2; 2.1 Speech act theory: Doing things with words; 2.2 Grice's conversational maxims; 2.3 Politeness; 2.4 The lexicogrammar of casual speech; 2.5 The analysis of talk in interaction (conversation analysis); 2.6 Speech sounds; 2.7 Phonology: Meaningful sounds across languages; 2.8 Further exercises; 2.9 Chapter outcomes; 2.10 References and further reading.
- 2.11 Some answers to the exercises; Chapter 3; 3.1 Genre and text analysis; 3.2 Systemic Functional Linguistics; 3.3 Written and spoken language; 3.4 Chapter outcomes; 3.5 References and further reading; 3.6 Some Answers to the Exercises; Chapter 4; 4.1 Morphology: the construction of words; 4.2 Morphology and syntax; 4.3 Formal syntax; 4.4 Semantics; 4.5 Chapter outcomes; 4.6 References and further reading; 4.7 Some answers to the exercises; Chapter 5; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The ways in which languages change; 5.3 Why languages change; 5.4 Chapter outcomes; 5.5 References and further reading.
- 5.6 Some answers to the exercises; Chapter 6; 6.1 Synchronic variation, sociolinguistics, and speech communities; 6.2 Dialect and vernacular; 6.3 Diglossia; 6.4 Pidgins and Creoles; 6.5 Sociolect; 6.6 Register; 6.7 Speech accommodation; 6.8 Lexical variation; 6.9 Sound variation; 6.10 Morphosyntactic variation; 6.11 Chapter outcomes; 6.12 References and further readings; 6.13 Some answers to exercises; Chapter 7; 7.1 The brain and language; 7.2 First language acquisition; 7.3 Second language development; 7.4 Animals and language; 7.5 Chapter outcomes; 7.6 References and further reading.
- Chapter 88.1 Clinical Linguistics; 8.2 Cognitive Linguistics; 8.3 Computational Linguistics; 8.4 Contrastive Linguistics; 8.5 Corpus Linguistics; 8.6 Critical Discourse Analysis; 8.7 Educational Linguistics; 8.8 Forensic Linguistics; 8.9 Formal Linguistics; 8.10 Functional linguistics; 8.11 Historical Linguistics; 8.12 Psycholinguistics; 8.13 Sociolinguistics; Glossary; Index of Names; Subject Index.