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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:33:04
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Wonders of Language: Roberts
Title: The Wonders of Language
Subtitle: Or How to Make Noises and Influence People
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://cambridge.org
Book URL: https://goo.gl/LFMUjk
Author: Ian Roberts
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316604410 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 23.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316604410 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 17.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781316604410 Pages: Price: Europe EURO 23.39
Abstract:
Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a
species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully
unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the
water they swim in. We live in a mental ocean of nouns, verbs, quantifiers,
morphemes, vowels and other rich, strange and deeply fascinating linguistic
objects. This book introduces the reader to this amazing world. Offering a
thought-provoking and accessible introduction to the main discoveries and
theories about language, the book is aimed at general readers and
undergraduates who are curious about linguistics and language. Written in a
lively and direct style, technical terms are carefully introduced and
explained and the book includes a full glossary. The book covers all the
central areas of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as historical linguistics,
sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics.
Introduction; 1. How to make noises - phonetics; 2. How to organise noises -
phonology; 3. How to build a word - morphology; 4. How to say absolutely
anything you want to - syntax; 5. How to build a world - semantics; 6. How to
influence people - pragmatics; 7. How to find lost languages - historical
linguistics; 8. How to influence the right people - sociolinguistics; 9. How
to lose a language and how to learn a language - psycholinguistics; 10. How to
build a language - language typology and universals.
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng)
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