30.64, Books: How Languages Work: Genetti

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Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 16:12:51
From: Lucy Ridgway [lridgway at cambridge.org]
Subject: How Languages Work: Genetti

 


Title: How Languages Work 
Subtitle: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/english-language-and-linguistics-general-interest/how-languages-work-introduction-language-and-linguistics-2nd-edition?format=PB 


Author: Carol Genetti

Paperback: ISBN:  9781108454513 Pages: 704 Price: U.S. $ 59.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108454513 Pages: 704 Price: U.K. £ 42.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108454513 Pages: 704 Price: Europe EURO 50.17


Abstract:

Language is a sophisticated tool which we use to communicate in a multitude of
ways. Updated and expanded in its second edition, this book introduces
language and linguistics - presenting language in all its amazing complexity
while systematically guiding you through the basics. The reader will emerge
with an appreciation of the diversity of the world's languages, as well as a
deeper understanding of the structure of human language, the ways it is used,
and its broader social and cultural context. Part I is devoted to the nuts and
bolts of language study - speech sounds, sound patterns, sentence structure,
and meaning - and includes chapters dedicated to the functional aspects of
language: discourse, prosody, pragmatics, and language contact. The fourteen
language profiles included in Part II reveal the world's linguistic variety
while expanding on the similarities and differences between languages. Using
knowledge gained from Part I, the reader can explore how language functions
when speakers use it in daily interaction. With a step-by-step approach that
is reinforced with well-chosen illustrations, case studies, and study
questions, readers will gain understanding and analytical skills that will
only enrich their ongoing study of language and linguistics.

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of glossing
conventions; The book's approach; For students: how to use this book; Part I.
Primary Chapters: 1. Introduction: language, languages, and linguistics Carol
Genetti; 2. Phonetics: physical dimensions of speech sounds Matthew Gordon; 3.
Phonology: organization of speech sounds Matthew Gordon; 4. Morphology: what's
in a word? Marianne Mithun; 5. Word classes: evidence from grammatical
behavior Carol Genetti; 6. Syntax: words in combination Carol Genetti; 7.
Semantics: how language makes sense Michael Israel; 8. Pragmatics: inference
for language Mira Ariel; 9. Discourse: language beyond the sentence Wallace
Chafe; 10. Prosody: the music of language Wallace Chafe; 11. Language in the
social world Mary Bucholtz and Lal Zimman; 12. Language change: the dynamicity
of linguistic systems Marianne Mithun; 13. Language contact and areal
linguistics Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald; 14. First language acquisition Patricia
M. Clancy; 15. Second language acquisition Dorothy Chun and Jan Frodesen; Part
II. Language Profiles: 1. Kabardian Matthew Gordon and Ayla Applebaum; 2.
Goemai Birgit Hellwig; 3. Manange Kristine Hildebrandt; 4. Finnish Ritva
Laury; 5. Nuuchahnulth (Nootka) Toshihide Nakayama; 6. South Conchucos Quechua
Daniel J. Hintz; 7. Tsez Bernard Comrie; 8. Bardi Claire Bowern; 9. Lowland
Chontal Loretta O'Connor; 10. Manambu Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Carol
Genetti; 11. African-American English Anne H. Charity Hudley and Christine
Mallinson; 12. Indonesian Robert Englebretson; 13. Seneca Wallace Chafe; 14.
Akkadian Guy Deutscher; Glossary; References; Index; Appendix: IPA summary
sheet.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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