Introduction to English Linguistics

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ISBN: 9783110214086 | 3110214083
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Copyright: 2/15/2009

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This successful textbook introduces beginning university students of English to the study of English linguistics, with a strong focus on linguistic analysis and argumentation.

Preface	p. V
Abbreviations and notational conventions	p. x
Introduction	p. xi
	p. The sounds:
Introduction	p. 1
Spelling vs. pronunciation: the representation of speech sounds	p. 2
Producing sounds	p. 7
The nature of speech sounds	p. 7
The Vocal tract	p. 8
How sounds differ from each other: the classification of speech sounds	p. 9
The classification of consonants	p. 10
The classification of vowels	p. 16
Conclusion	p. 24
Further reading	p. 24
Exercises	p. 25
	p. The sound sy
Introduction	p. 29
Introducing order into the chaos: the phoneme	p. 29
The key to finding the order	p. 35
Minimal pairs	p. 35
Distributional characteristics of allophones	p. 37
Observing allophonic alternations in different word forms	p. 39
More about the sound system of English	p. 42
Allophones of /I/	p. 42
Stop phonemes	p. 45
A slightly more complex case: /x/	p. 50
The syllable	p. 54
The structure of the syllable	p. 54
Syllabification	p. 59
The syllable and allophonic processes:/l/	p. 63
Conclusion	p. 65
Further reading	p. 65
Exercise	p. 66
	p. The structur
Introduction	p. 70
Minimal building blocks: morphemes	p. 70
Types of morphemes	p. 75
Morphological analysis of words	p. 78
Realisation of morphemes: allomorphs	p. 82
Morphological processes: infection and derivation	p. 89
Word-formation	p. 93
Introduction	p. 93
Affixation	p. 94
Compounding	p. 99
Conversion	p. 104
Shortening	p. 106
Conclusion	p. 108
Further reading	p. 108
Exercises	p. 109
	p. The structur
Introduction	p. 111
The building blocks: words and phrases	p. 114
Constituency tests and phrases	p. 114
The internal structure of phrases	p. 121
The functional level: subjects, objects, adverbials, predicates	p. 128
The mapping of form and function	p. 135
Conclusion	p. 136
Further reading	p. 137
Exercises	p. 137
	p. The meaning
Introduction	p. 140
What does 'meaning' mean? Words concepts, and referents	p. 140
Compositional and non-compositional meaning	p. 149
The network: organizing word meaning	p. 155
Words and other words	p. 155
Same or different?	p. 163
Conclusion	p. 170
Further reading	p. 172
Exercises	p. 172
	p. Studying lan
Introduction	p. 176
Expressing intention through language	p. 177
Using language to act speech acts	p. 177
Speech acts: a closer look	p. 179
Classifying speech acts	p. 181
Realisation of speech acts: direct and indirect speech acts	p. 187
Performing speech acts successfully: felicity conditions	p. 189
Understanding utterance meaning	p. 192
Exploring pragmatic principles	p. 195
The Cooperative Principle	p. 195
Politeness	p. 202
Conclusion	p. 206
Further reading	p. 207
Exercises	p. 207
	p. Extensions a
Introduction	p. 210
Historical linguistics: how languages develop	p. 210
Sociolinguistics: the social significance of language	p. 219
Psycholinguistics: how do we store and process language?	p. 224
Conclusion	p. 227
Further reading	p. 228
Exercises	p. 228
Glossary	p. 231
References	p. 246
Subject index	p. 251
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