Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication
by Adrian Akmajian et al.

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Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication by Adrian Akmajian et al.

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Far from the Madding Gerund and other dispatches from the Language Log (2006) by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Reprint of over 100 blog entries by linguists Liberman, Pullum, and colleagues first published as irreverent-yet-informed, casual-yet-cogent, fascist-yet-funny blog entries at the Language Log.

Chapters of Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication

A fascinating and readable text book by by Adrian Akmajian et al.

Part 1: The Structure of Human Language.

Chapters:

1. What is linguistics?
2. Morphology: the structure of words.
3. Phonetics and phonemic transcription.
4. Phonology: the study of sound structure.
5. Syntax: the study of sentence structure.
6. Semantics: the study of linguistic meaning.
7. Language variation.
8. Language change.

Part 2: Communication and Cognitive Science.

Chapters:

9. Pragmatics: The study of language use and communication.
10. Psychology of language: speech production and comprehension.
11. Language aquisition in children.
12. Language and the brain.

Concludes with:

• Appendix: The written representation of language.
• 20-page Glossary.
• 12 pages of Index.

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