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Learn to:
- The components of any language
- Language's social dimensions
- What language reveals about the human brain
- How writing changes a language
Understand the science behind human language
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Whether you're currently enrolled in a course or just want to explore the subject, Linguistics For Dummies helps you understand some of the primary streams of linguistics: what language is for (communication), how language works (pattern formation), what language reveals about the mind (cognition), and how written language shapes society (technology).
- Get to know the basics -- determine the traits that all languages share and get to know the design features which ensure that language can convey meaning
- Discover the building blocks of language -- investigate how individual speech sounds combine to form words, which form sentences, and how those are strung together to make conversation
- Explore the evolution of language -- consider how new languages are born, chart how language changes over time, and examine how languages are lost
- Study the relationship between the human brain and language -- find out how children and adults learn language and how language activates your brain
- Delve into the written word -- see how different writing systems develop, how writing a language down changes it, and how it changes you!
Open the book and find:
- The architecture of words
- How linguistics categorizes into grammatical categories
- What makes a conversation tick
- The social variables that affect language
- How linguistic archeology connects Sanskrit and English
- Why dying languages matter and how they can be saved
- What brain damage does to language
- How electronic writing streamlines language
Learn to:
- The components of any language
- Language's social dimensions
- What language reveals about the human brain
- How writing changes a language
Understand the science behind human language
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Whether you're currently enrolled in a course or just want to explore the subject, Linguistics For Dummies helps you understand some of the primary streams of linguistics: what language is for (communication), how language works (pattern formation), what language reveals about the mind (cognition), and how written language shapes society (technology).
- Get to know the basics -- determine the traits that all languages share and get to know the design features which ensure that language can convey meaning
- Discover the building blocks of language -- investigate how individual speech sounds combine to form words, which form sentences, and how those are strung together to make conversation
- Explore the evolution of language -- consider how new languages are born, chart how language changes over time, and examine how languages are lost
- Study the relationship between the human brain and language -- find out how children and adults learn language and how language activates your brain
- Delve into the written word -- see how different writing systems develop, how writing a language down changes it, and how it changes you!
Open the book and find:
- The architecture of words
- How linguistics categorizes into grammatical categories
- What makes a conversation tick
- The social variables that affect language
- How linguistic archeology connects Sanskrit and English
- Why dying languages matter and how they can be saved
- What brain damage does to language
- How electronic writing streamlines language
Strang Burton is a linguist with the Stolo nation and has taught linguistics at a number of universities. Rose-Marie Déchaine and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson are professors of linguistics at the University of British Columbia.
Introduction 1
Part I: Looking at Language through the Lens of Linguistics 7
Chapter 1: Knowing a Language Versus Knowing What Language Is 9
Chapter 2: Communicating with Language: The Design Features 21
Part II: The Building Blocks of Language 33
Chapter 3: Building Sounds: Phonetics 35
Chapter 4: Putting Sounds Together: Phonology 57
Chapter 5: Building Words: Morphology 77
Chapter 6: Creating Sentences: Syntax 95
Chapter 7: Making Sense of Meaning: Semantics 117
Chapter 8: Using Language in Conversation: Pragmatics 133
Part III: The Social Life of Language 151
Chapter 9: Living with Language Variation: Sociolinguistics 153
Chapter 10: Finding Family Relations: Historical Linguistics 171
Chapter 11: Cataloguing Differences: Linguistic Typology 189
Chapter 12: Beginning and Ending: Language Birth and Language Death 205
Part IV: Your Brain on Language: Learning and Processing Language 221
Chapter 13: Learning Language 223
Chapter 14: Perceiving Language 245
Chapter 15: Producing Language 259
Chapter 16: Locating Language in the Brain: Neurolinguistics 277
Part V: Getting from Speaking to Writing 293
Chapter 17: Writing Down Language 295
Chapter 18: Writing Changes You 307
Part VI: The Part of Tens 321
Chapter 19: Ten Myths about Language Busted by Linguistics 323
Chapter 20: Ten Unsolved Problems in Linguistics 331
Chapter 21: Top 10 Jobs for Linguists 337
Index 343
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
| Rubrik: | Sachliteratur |
| Thema: | Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781118091692 |
| ISBN-10: | 1118091698 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Dechaine, Rose-Marie
Burton, Strang Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric |
| Hersteller: | Wiley |
| Maße: | 235 x 191 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Rose-Marie Dechaine (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.03.2012 |
| Gewicht: | 0,719 kg |
Strang Burton is a linguist with the Stolo nation and has taught linguistics at a number of universities. Rose-Marie Déchaine and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson are professors of linguistics at the University of British Columbia.
Introduction 1
Part I: Looking at Language through the Lens of Linguistics 7
Chapter 1: Knowing a Language Versus Knowing What Language Is 9
Chapter 2: Communicating with Language: The Design Features 21
Part II: The Building Blocks of Language 33
Chapter 3: Building Sounds: Phonetics 35
Chapter 4: Putting Sounds Together: Phonology 57
Chapter 5: Building Words: Morphology 77
Chapter 6: Creating Sentences: Syntax 95
Chapter 7: Making Sense of Meaning: Semantics 117
Chapter 8: Using Language in Conversation: Pragmatics 133
Part III: The Social Life of Language 151
Chapter 9: Living with Language Variation: Sociolinguistics 153
Chapter 10: Finding Family Relations: Historical Linguistics 171
Chapter 11: Cataloguing Differences: Linguistic Typology 189
Chapter 12: Beginning and Ending: Language Birth and Language Death 205
Part IV: Your Brain on Language: Learning and Processing Language 221
Chapter 13: Learning Language 223
Chapter 14: Perceiving Language 245
Chapter 15: Producing Language 259
Chapter 16: Locating Language in the Brain: Neurolinguistics 277
Part V: Getting from Speaking to Writing 293
Chapter 17: Writing Down Language 295
Chapter 18: Writing Changes You 307
Part VI: The Part of Tens 321
Chapter 19: Ten Myths about Language Busted by Linguistics 323
Chapter 20: Ten Unsolved Problems in Linguistics 331
Chapter 21: Top 10 Jobs for Linguists 337
Index 343
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2012 |
|---|---|
| Produktart: | Nachschlagewerke |
| Rubrik: | Sachliteratur |
| Thema: | Fremdsprachige Wörterbücher |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9781118091692 |
| ISBN-10: | 1118091698 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: |
Dechaine, Rose-Marie
Burton, Strang Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric |
| Hersteller: | Wiley |
| Maße: | 235 x 191 x 21 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Rose-Marie Dechaine (u. a.) |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 06.03.2012 |
| Gewicht: | 0,719 kg |
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