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ISBN 10: 1413030556

ISBN 13: 9781413030556

Author: Edward Finegan

LANGUAGE: ITS STRUCTURE AND USE explains core concepts in an interactive style that you can understand no matter what your major. With features like “What Do You Think?” and “Try It Yourself,” you’ll understand what you’re experiencing on campus and in the classroom from a linguistics perspective. The expanded study sections and the available workbook provide you with the tools you’ll need for effective test prep.

Language Its Structure and Use 5th Table of contents:

Part 1: Language Structures

1. Languages and Linguistics

   • Defining Language
   • Number of Languages Worldwide
   • Official Language of the United States
   • Human Language Characteristics
   • Signs: Arbitrary vs. Non-Arbitrary
   • Grammatical and Communicative Competence
   • Modes of Linguistic Communication
   • Animal Communication vs. Human Language
   • Language Acquisition in Chimpanzees
   • The Origin of Human Language
   • Introduction to Linguistics
   • Computers and Linguistics
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

2. Words and Their Parts: Lexicon and Morphology

   • Understanding Words
   • Lexical Categories
   • Morphemes and Their Organization
   • Vocabulary Expansion
   • Morphological Systems
   • Allomorphy
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

3. The Sounds of Languages: Phonetics

   • Sounds vs. Spellings
   • Consonant and Vowel Sounds
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

4. Sound Systems of Language: Phonology

   • Mental Representation of Sounds
   • Phonological Rules and Structures
   • Syllables, Stress, and Phonological Processes
   • Interaction of Morphology and Phonology
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

5. Syntax: Structure and Function of Phrases and Sentences

   • Constituents of Sentences
   • Phrase-Structure Expansions
   • Grammatical Relations
   • Syntactic Operations and Recursion
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

6. Semantics: The Study of Meaning

   • Types of Meaning
   • Lexical and Sentence Semantics
   • Semantic Roles and Grammatical Relations
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

7. Language Universals and Typology

   • Similarities and Differences Among Languages
   • Phonological, Syntactic, and Morphological Universals
   • Explanations for Language Universals
   • Universal Grammar and Language Acquisition
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

Part 2: Language Use

8. Information Structure and Pragmatics

   • Encoding Information Structure
   • Relationship Between Sentences and Discourse
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

9. Speech Acts and Conversation

   • Language in Use
   • Speech Acts and the Cooperative Principle
   • Politeness and Cross-Cultural Communication
   • Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

10. Language Variation: Registers and Styles

• Speech Situations and Registers
• Spoken vs. Written Language
• Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

11. Language Variation Among Social Groups: Dialects

• Language vs. Dialect
• Regional, National, and Ethnic Varieties of English
• Social and Gender-Based Language Differences
• Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

Part 3: Language Change, Development, and Acquisition

12. Language Change Over Time: Historical Linguistics

• Language Evolution and Family Trees
• Language Contact and Borrowing
• Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

13. Historical Development of English

• Old, Middle, and Modern English
• Key Texts and Language Shifts
• Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

14. First and Second Language Acquisition

• How Languages Are Acquired
• Research on Language Learning
• Summary, Exercises, and Additional Resources

Additional Sections

• Glossary
• Index
• Index of Languages
• Index of Internet Sites, Films, and Videos
• Credits

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