Kate Burridge Tonya N. Stebbins
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FOR THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE AN INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
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This text offers a comprehensive introduction to how language works and the role of linguistics in investigating its fundamental design.
DATE PUBLISHED: October 2015 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN: 9781107618831
FOR THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE AN INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
Language is essential to human life, both as a basic social necessity and also as a powerful and complex social resource.
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For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction to the workings of language and the role of linguistics in investigating its fundamental design. This thorough and engaging investigation into language and linguistics covers topics including:
strategies for learning about how language works using linguistics to address real-world problems the structure and meaning of words the systems that organise language changes to language over time how language is used in written and spoken communication the links between language, the mind and the world.
Keywords - Each chapter introduces a range of new concepts. Essential concepts - Each of the keywords is also discussed in the section called ‘Essential concepts’. Here we provide concise definitions for each term. Extra exercises, discussion points and research projects Additional research projects per chapter online Responses to exercises/discussion points in the book Research project tips and resources Further resources
WHY CHOOSE THIS RESOURCE: Contains comprehensive coverage of introductory linguistics topics, making it suitable for semester long, or year long linguistics subjects Wide array of pedagogical material, including exercise and discussion questions, research project questions, essay questions and online quizzes on the companion website Written by authors with extensive academic experience in the field of linguistics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I. ‘Using Language to Expose Language’ – Setting the Scene: 1. What is language? 2. What linguists do 3. Ways to study language Part II. ‘In the Beginning was the Word’ – Words, their Structure and Meaning: 4. What’s in a word? 5. Morphology – the structure of words 6. Semantics – the meaning of words Part III. ‘The Deep Grooves of Language’ – Sounds and Grammar 7. Phonetics 8. Phonology – the sound system 9. Syntax – the structure of sentences
Kate Burridge, Monash University, Victoria. Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her main areas of research are: grammatical change in Germanic languages, the Pennsylvania German spoken by Amish/Mennonite communities in North America, the notion of linguistic taboo and the structure and history of English. She is a regular presenter of language segments on radio and has appeared as a panelist on ABC TV’s ‘Can We Help?’.
RESOURCES FOR INSTRUCTORS Quizzes Part IV. ‘Language is a Social Fact’ – Variation and Change: 10. Variation and identity 11. Structure across time 12. Languages and cultures in contact Part V. ‘Language that Rolls up its Sleeves’ – Language at Work: 13. Language and text 14. Language and interaction 15. Language and social values Part VI. ‘Language is the Dress of Thought’ – Language, Mind and World: 16. Language, mind and the brain 17. Language acquisition 18. Computational linguistics.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES In addition to the text, you will have access to a companion site to support your teaching. Here you will find free-of-charge online materials to accompany this text.
10 quizzes have been prepared for each chapter in the book. Resources for students Guide to academic referencing Language biographies Linguistics matters
Tonya N. Stebbins, Monash University, Victoria. Tonya N. Stebbins has had a distinguished academic career as a lecturer, researcher and administrator. Among the subjects Dr Stebbins has taught for many years at the tertiary level are English grammar and subjects on the sociology of language and on bilingualism and language acquisition. Her online grammar learning tool, Grammarpedia (www.languagetools.info/grammarpedia), was developed to support a blended learning approach to English grammar and has been used in tertiary courses on English grammar since 2008.