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.