The Social Art: Language and Its UsesThe Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters, topics like language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others. In this revised and expanded second edition, Macaulay brings the book up to date with the last decade of progress in linguistics, adding more American examples, and updating bibliographies. Two new chapters have been added, on theories of language development and on the evolution of language. The Social Art is perfect for general readers and students who want to learn about what it is that linguists do. |
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THE SOCIAL ART: Language and Its Uses
Nutzerbericht - KirkusA modest survey of recent linguistic theory and practice in which Macaulay (Linguistics/Pitzer College; Generally Speaking, 1980—not reviewed) draws on 25 years of teaching to present what he admits ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
| 3 | |
2 Learning Ones First Language | 7 |
3 The Act of Communicating | 11 |
4 Prosodic Features | 20 |
5 Learning About Words and Their Structure | 25 |
Syntax | 29 |
7 More Syntax | 35 |
8 Still More Syntax | 39 |
22 Narratives | 113 |
23 Learning a Second Language | 119 |
24 The Evolution of Language | 124 |
25 Language Change | 128 |
26 The History of English | 134 |
27 IndoEuropean | 145 |
28 Languages of the World | 151 |
29 Language and Thought | 158 |
9 Semantics | 43 |
10 Pragmatically Speaking | 49 |
11 Theories of Language Development | 54 |
12 Variety | 58 |
13 Regional Dialects | 63 |
14 Social Class | 69 |
15 Written Language | 77 |
16 Register | 85 |
17 Style | 89 |
18 Sex Differences | 93 |
19 The Magic of Words | 98 |
20 Rhetoric | 102 |
21 Conversation | 107 |
30 Pronouns | 162 |
31 Gender | 166 |
32 Pidgins and Creoles | 170 |
33 Literature | 175 |
34 Childrens Lore and Language | 182 |
Confessio Amantis | 192 |
Appendix | 195 |
Further Reading | 201 |
Glossary | 209 |
Phonetic Symbols for English | 225 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adults anaphoric aspects of language chapter child children’s language development Chomsky Chomsky’s claimed communication complex consonants creole creole language dialects distinction example expressions free morphemes French function gender genitive German girl glottal stop grammatical guage hearer human language identify important indicate Indo-European Indo-European languages inflected intonation John kind Latin linguistic listener Mary meaning Middle English modern English morphemes Noam Chomsky normal notion noun classes noun phrase obvious Old English past tense phemes phonemes pidgin plural possible problem produced pronoun pronunciation question refer relationship relative clause rhyme second language sentence signal similar simply sing social someone sometimes sounds speak speaker speech spelling stop consonants story structure suffix syllables syntactic syntax tell term Tok Pisin tone understand Universal Grammar usually utterance variety verb vocabulary vocal voice voiceless vowel writing system written young children
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | The Social Art: Language and Its Uses |
| Autor/in | Ronald Macaulay |
| Ausgabe | 2 |
| Verlag | Oxford University Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0199908419, 9780199908417 |
| Länge | 256 Seiten |
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