Introduction to english linguistics /
This highly successful textbook introduces university students to English linguistics, with a hands-on didactic orientation. It covers the core areas of structural linguistics, with extensions to historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. The updated third edition contains a new...
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De Gruyter,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 3rd. rev. ed. |
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Mouton textbook
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Online Access: |
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Summary: |
This highly successful textbook introduces university students to English linguistics, with a hands-on didactic orientation. It covers the core areas of structural linguistics, with extensions to historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. The updated third edition contains a new chapter that presents modern empirical research methods in the form of exemplary small-scale studies. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : illustrations. |
ISBN: | 9783110378382 |
Index Number: | PE1106 |
CLC: | H314 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the third edition -- Abbreviations and notational conventions -- Introduction: what this book is about and how it can be used -- 1. The sounds: phonetics -- 2. The sound system: phonology -- 3. The structure of words: morphology -- 4. The structure of sentences: syntax -- 5. The meaning of words and sentences: semantics -- 6. Studying language in use: pragmatics -- 7. Extensions and applications: historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics -- 8. Linguistics as an empirical science -- Glossary -- References -- Subject index. |