An Introduction to Language and Linguistics

'Christopher Hall's book is the best new introduction to linguistics that I have seen in decades. It is engagingly written without talking down to the reader and it covers all the subparts of the field in a comprehensive and even-handed manner. I pla

Preface

xi

Part I: Magic

1

(46)

1 The Spell

3

(25)

Thought and sound...with language in between

4

(3)

Under the spell of language

7

(5)

The spell is cast: linguistic awareness and linguistic belief

12

(14)

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26

(2)

2 Linguistics

28

(19)

Linguistics, applied linguistics and the language professions

29

(5)

Breaking the spell: linguistic knowledge

34

(11)

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45

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Part II: Words

47

(84)

3 Names, Words and Things

49

(36)

Problems with names

49

(8)

Words, meanings and thought

57

(19)

So what is a word?

76

(8)

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84

(1)

4 Where Words Come From

85

(25)

How children put names and things together

85

(9)

Behind The Dictionary

94

(14)

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108

(2)

5 Forming Words

110

(21)

Word forms: speech and spelling

110

(12)

Creating new lexical forms

122

(6)

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128

(3)

Part III: Grammar

131

(78)

6 Morphology

133

(21)

Morphological combination

133

(8)

Where affixes come from

141

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7 Syntax

154

(33)

Syntactic combination

155

(16)

Syntax and pragmatics: conventional meaning in novel contexts

171

(6)

Syntactic rules

177

(8)

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185

(2)

8 From DNA to Discourse Community

187

(22)

Acquiring the rules

187

(10)

Pragmatics: sentences in use

197

(11)

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208

(1)

Part IV: Babel

209

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9 Interlinguistic Diversity

211

(27)

Languages of the world

212

(10)

Multilingualism

222

(14)

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236

(2)

10 Diversity Within

238

(32)

Styles and registers

239

(12)

Dialects and accents

251

(6)

Linguistic diversity, education and power

257

(11)

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268

(2)

11 The Spell unbroken

270

(30)

Language biology

271

(8)

Language evolution

279

(10)

Living under the Language Spell

289

(9)

More information

298

(2)

Sources

300

(5)

Bibliography

305

(5)

Glossary

310

(23)

Subject Index

333

(10)

Scholar Index

343

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An Introduction to Language and Linguistics Breaking the Language Spell

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