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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:43:59
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Introducing Linguistics: Bruhn de Garavito, Schwieter (eds.)

 


Title: Introducing Linguistics 
Subtitle: Theoretical and Applied Approaches 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/english-language-and-linguistics-general-interest/introducing-linguistics-theoretical-and-applied-approaches?format=PB 


Editor: Joyce Bruhn de Garavito
Editor: John W. Schwieter

Hardback: ISBN:  9781108482554 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 162.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108482554 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 125.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781108482554 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 145.89
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108710657 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 54.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108710657 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 41.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781108710657 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 49.01


Abstract:

Everything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book
offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each
thought-provoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields,
and is helpfully organized across six parts: sound; structure and meaning;
language typologies and change; language and social aspects; language
acquisition; and language, cognition, and the brain. The book's companion
website also offers three brief chapters on language and computers; animal
communication; and dialectal varieties of English. The chapters feature
illustrative tables, figures and maps, along with three types of pedagogical
boxes (Linguistic Tidbits; Pause and Reflect; and Eyes on World Languages)
that break up text, contextualize information, and provide colourful accents
that give real data from languages across the globe. Key words are bolded and
defined in a glossary at the end of the book, while end-of-chapter summaries
and practice exercises reinforce the key points discussed.
 



Contents; Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introducing linguistics Joyce
Bruhn de Garavito and John W. Schwieter; Part II. Sound: 2. Phonetics: sound
articulation and acoustics Christine Shea and Sarah Olivia O'Neill; 3.
Phonology: sound patterns and contrasts Joyce Bruhn de Garavito; Part III.
Structure And Meaning: 4. Morphology: word structure Joyce Bruhn de Garavito;
5. Syntax: phrase and sentence structure Joyce Bruhn de Garavito; 6.
Semantics: language and meaning Roumyana Slabakova; Part IV. Language
Typologies And Change: 7. The classification of languages Asya Pereltsvaig; 8.
Historical linguistics Laura Grestenberger; Part V. Language And Social
Aspects: 9. Sociolinguistics: language in society Terry Nadasdi; 10.
Pragmatics and discourse analysis Maite Taboada; 11. Writing systems Peter T.
Daniels and John W. Schwieter; Part VI. Language Acquisition: 12. First
language acquisition John W. Schwieter; 13. Second language acquisition John
W. Schwieter; Part VII. Language, Cognition, And The Brain: 14.
Psycholinguistics: language processing John W. Schwieter; 15.
Neurolinguistics: language and the brain John W. Schwieter; Part VIII. Brief
Chapters On Companion Website and in eBook: 16. Animal communication and
language Con Slobodchikoff; 17. Computational linguistics Robert E. Mercer;
18. English varieties outside of North America Daniel Schreier.
 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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