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Author:   Joanne Cavallaro
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780367219635

ISBN 10:   0367219638
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   21 August 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1 INTRODUCTION Diverse language experiences Why study linguistics—and what is it anyway? How we’ll study language A socially realistic linguistics Prescriptive and descriptive perspectives on language Navigating your way through this book 2 A LANGUAGE IS A LANGUAGE, RIGHT? Introduction What is language? Design features of human language Do animals have language? Other characteristics of human language 3 MORPHOLOGY: WORD HISTORIES AND STRUCTURE Introduction Lexical categories Words and their histories Words and their structure Morphology in languages other than English Hierarchical structure in words L1 acquisition in focus: She comed, those mouses 4 PHONETICS: THE SOUNDS OF ENGLISH Introduction International Phonetic Alphabet Classifying language sounds Consonants and vowels Natural classes Accents Prosody Phonetics in your world: What’s in a name? Phonetics in your world: Local acts of identity Sign language phonetics Phonetics in other languages L1 acquisition in focus: Acquiring language sounds and signs 5 PHONOLOGY: WHY DO WE SAY IT LIKE THAT? Introduction Systematic structuring of sounds Articulatory processes: Changing sounds Phonology in your world: ask vs aks revisited Morphophonology L1 acquisition in focus: Learning phonemes and more 6 SYNTAX: ORDERING WORDS, MAKING SENTENCES Introduction Syntax and grammar Constituents of a sentence Phrase structure rules Recursion Structural ambiguity Structural relationships among sentences Syntactic operations Using syntax in writing Universal Grammar L1 acquisition in focus: Acquiring syntax Syntax in your (natural) world: Do birds have syntax? Syntax in other languages A note about theory 7 SEMANTICS: RELATIONSHIPS AMONG WORDS Introduction Meaning and meanings Semantic relations: Is salt the opposite of pepper? Figurative language Semantic fields Semantic roles and sentence meaning Corpus linguistics 8 LANGUAGE IN EVERYDAY INTERACTION Introduction Discourse Conversation patterns and organization Pragmatics Politeness 9 LANGUAGE VARIATION AND SOCIETY Introduction Structured variation Standards and standardization Critical sociolinguistics 10 AFRICAN AMERICAN LANGUAGE Introduction Overview History of AAL Structure of AAL Variation within AAL AAL in the courtroom Micro-aggressions Language, race, and identity AAL and education 11 GENDERS, IDENTITIES, AND LINGUISTIC PERFORMANCE Introduction Early studies of language and gender Multiple identities: Black Masculine Language Gender as performance 12 MULTILINGUALISM Introduction What is multilingualism? Language planning Language contact Superdiversity Linguistic relativity Learning to be multilingual Multilingualism in education 13 LANGUAGE BIRTH AND DEATH Introduction Origins of language Language spread and language families A very brief history of English Origins of American Sign Language Language loss and endangerment 14 ECOLINGUISTICS: LANGUAGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT Introduction Language and its natural environment Eco-critical linguistics Index

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Joanne Cavallaro is a professor emerita of English at St. Catherine University, Minnesota, U.S.A., where she has taught linguistics for 30 years.

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