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

Christopher J. Hall is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico

Preface	p. xi
Magic	p. 1
The Spell	p. 3
Thought and sound ... with language in between	p. 4
Under the spell of language	p. 7
The spell is cast: linguistic awareness and linguistic belief	p. 12
More information	p. 26
Linguistics	p. 28
Linguistics, applied linguistics and the language professions	p. 29
Breaking the spell: linguistic knowledge	p. 34
More information	p. 45
Words	p. 47
Names, Words and Things	p. 49
Problems with names	p. 49
Words, meanings and thought	p. 57
So what is a word?	p. 76
More information	p. 84
Where Words Come From	p. 85
How children put names and things together	p. 85
Behind The Dictionary	p. 94
More information	p. 108
Forming Words	p. 110
Word forms: speech and spelling	p. 110
Creating new lexical forms	p. 122
More information	p. 128
Grammar	p. 131
Morphology	p. 133
Morphological combination	p. 133
Where affixes come from	p. 141
More information	p. 153
Syntax	p. 154
Syntactic combination	p. 155
Syntax and pragmatics: conventional meaning in novel contexts	p. 171
Syntactic rules	p. 177
More information	p. 185
From DNA to Discourse Community	p. 187
Acquiring the rules	p. 187
Pragmatics: sentences in use	p. 197
More information	p. 208
Babel	p. 209
Interlinguistic Diversity	p. 211
Languages of the world	p. 212
Multilingualism	p. 222
More information	p. 236
Diversity Within	p. 238
Styles and registers	p. 239
Dialects and accents	p. 251
Linguistic diversity, education and power	p. 257
More information	p. 268
The Spell Unbroken	p. 270
Language biology	p. 271
Language evolution	p. 279
Living under the Language Spell	p. 289
More information	p. 298
Sources	p. 300
Bibliography	p. 305
Glossary	p. 310
Subject Index	p. 333
Scholar Index	p. 343
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An Introduction to Language and Linguistics Breaking the Language Spell

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