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An edition of Understanding linguistics (2008)

Understanding linguistics

the science of language

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Linguistics, Study and teaching, Language and languages, History

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Table of Contents

Part 1. What is linguistics? ; The sounds of language
consonants ; The other sounds
vowels ; In the head versus on the lips ; How to make a word ; The Chomskyan revolution ; Deep structure and surface structure ; The on-off switches of grammar ; Shades of meaning and semantic roles ; From sentence to storytelling ; Language on its way to becoming a new one ; Recovering languages of the past.
Part 2. Where grammar comes from ; Language change from Old English to now ; What is an impossible language? How children learn to speak ; How we learn languages as adults ; How you talk and how they talk ; How class defines speech ; Speaking differently, changing the language ; Language and gender ; Languages sharing the world
bilingualism ; Languages sharing a sentence
code switching ; The rules of conversation.
Part 3. What is this thing called language? Speech as action ; Uses of talk from culture to culture ; Does language channel thought? The evidence ; Does language channel thought? New findings ; Is language going to the dogs? Why languages are never perfect ; The evolution of writing ; Writing systems ; Doing linguistics
with a head start ; Doing linguistics
from the ground up ; The evolution of language.

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"Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Chantilly, Va
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The Great courses, teaching that engages the mind, Great courses
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Science of language

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3 v.. ;

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OL24944700M
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understandinglin00mcwh
ISBN 10
1598034782
ISBN 13
9781598034783
OCLC/WorldCat
362677187

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