An introduction to language and linguistics / Edited by Ralph Fasold and Jeffrey Connor-Linton. - Second Edition. - xvi, 557 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-550) and index.

Introduction; 1. The sounds of language; 2. Words and their parts; 3. The structure of sentences; 4. Meaning; 5. Discourse; 6. Child language acquisition; 7. Language and the brain; 8. Language change; 9. Dialect variation; 10. Language and culture; 11. The politics of language; 12. Writing; 13. Second language acquisition; 14. Computational linguistics; Glossary.

9781107637993 (Paperback)

2013050335


Linguistics.
Language and languages.

P121 / .I58 2014

410 FAS C