Hazen An Introduction to Language

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-56009-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 456 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Linguistics in the World

An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide tothe nature of language, focusing on how language works - itssounds, words, structures, and phrases - all investigatedthrough wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary popculture.
* Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language,inviting students to consider what qualities of language compriseeveryday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, orconversation
* Helps shape our understanding of what language is, howit works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essentialto who we are
* Includes exercises within each chapter to help readers explorekey concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of allhuman language
* Examines linguistic variation and change to illustrate socialnuances and language-in-use, drawing primarily on examples fromEnglish
* Avoids linguistic jargon, focusing instead on a broader andmore general approach to the study of language, and making it idealfor those coming to the subject for the first time
* Supported by additional web resources - available uponpublication at www.wiley.com/go/hazen/introlanguage- including student study aids and testbank and notes forinstructors

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hazen, Kirk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Companion Website xiv
Acknowledgments xv
Note to Instructors xvii
Preface: About the Book xix
1 Introduction 1
2 Sounds 31
3 Patterns of Sounds 73
4 Simple Words in the Lexicon 109
5 Idioms, Slang, and the English Lexicon 147
6 Words Made of Many Parts 177
7 Putting Pieces Together 217
8 Building Bigger Phrases 249
9 From Phrases to Meaning 295
10 The Winding Paths of Language in Education 327
11 The Life Cycles of Language 361
Glossary 395
Index 421

Über Autor(innen)

Kirk Hazen is Professor of Linguistics at West Virginia University. He is co-editor of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics (with Janet Holmes, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).