Description: About this productProduct InformationThis introduction to the structure of English, general theories in linguistics and important issues in sociolinguistics provides extensive coverage of issues of particular interest to English majors and future English instructors.Product IdentifiersPublisherLongman Publishing GroupISBN-100205605508ISBN-139780205605507eBay Product ID (ePID)107377713Product Key FeaturesFormatTrade PaperbackPublication Year2008LanguageEnglishDimensionsWeight31.8 OzWidth9.3in.Height0.9in.Length7.4in.Additional Product FeaturesDewey Edition22Table of ContentDetailed Contents Inside Front Cover Consonant Phonemes of English, Vowel Phonemes of English, Phonetic Alphabet for American English Inside Back Cover Brief Timeline for the History of the English Language List of Symbols, Linguistic Conventions, and Common Abbreviations xviii Preface to Instructors xxiii Letter to Students xxix Chapter 1 A Language like English 1 The Story of Aks 2 Language, Language Everywhere 4 The Power of Language 4 Name Calling 5 Judging by Ear 5 A Question to Discuss: What Makes Us Hear an Accent? 6 The System of Language 7 Arbitrariness and Systematicity 8 A Scholar to Know: Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) 9 Creativity 10 Grammar 11 Linguistics 12 Human Language versus Animal Communication 13 Birds and Bees 14 Chimps and Bonobos 15 Distinctive Characteristics of Human Language 18 The Process of Language Change 20 Language Genealogies 20 A Question to Discuss: Do Languages Have Families? 23 Mechanics of Language Change 23 Progress or Decay? 24 Attitudes about Language Change 25 Special Focus: Evolution of Human Language 26 Summary 30 Suggested Reading 30 Exercises 31 Chapter 2 Language and Authority 35 Who Is in Control? 36 Language Academies 36 Language Mavens 37 A Question to Discuss: Does the SAT Know Good Grammar from Bad? 39 Defining Standard English 40 Descriptive versus Prescriptive Grammar Rules 42 Case Study One: Double Negatives 43 Case Study Two: Ain''t 43 Case Study Three: Who and Whom 44 The Status of Prescriptive Rules 45 Spoken versus Written Language 46 A Question to Discuss: Which Is More Permanent, the Written or Spoken Word? 46 Language and Society: Are We Losing Our Memories? 48 Dictionaries of English 48 The Earliest Dictionaries of English 48 The Beginnings of Modern Lexicography 49 Historical Lexicography 50 American Lexicography 51 A Question to Discuss: Should Dictionaries Ever Prescribe? 53 English Grammar, Usage, and Style 54 The Earliest Usage Books 54 Prescriptive versus Descriptive Tendencies in Grammars of English 54 Modern Approaches to English Usage 56 Special Focus: Corpus Linguistics 57 Origins of Corpus Linguistics 58 Corpus Linguistics in the Twenty-first Century 59 Summary 62 Suggested Reading 62 Exercises 63 Chapter 3 English Phonology 67 Phonetics and Phonology 68 The Anatomy of Speech 70 The International Phonetic Alphabet 72 English Consonants 73 Stops 74 Fricatives 75 Language Change at Work: Is /h/ Disappearing from English? 76 Affricates 73 A Question to Discuss: Does English Have Initial /Z/? 73 Language Change at Work: Who Drops Their g''s? 77 Nasals 77 Liquids and Glides 77 Syllabic Consonants 78 English Vowels 79 Front Vowels 79 Back Vowels 80 Central Vowels 80 Diphthongs 81 Language Change at Work: The cot/caught and pin/pen Mergers 81 Natural Classes 82 Phonemes and Allophones 82 Sample Allophones 84 Minimal Pairs 85 Phonological Rules 86 Assimilation 86 Deletion 87 Insertion 87 Metathesis 87 Language Change at Work: Is larynx Undergoing Metathesis? 88 Syllables and Phonotactic Constraints 88 Perception of Sound 89 Special Focus: History of English Spelling 92 Should English Spelling Be Reformed? 94 Summary 95 Suggested Reading 95 Exercises 96 Chapter 4 English Morphology 104 Morphology 105 Open and Closed Classes of Morphemes 106 A Question to Discuss: Exceptions to the Closedness of Closed Classes? 108 Bound and Free Morphemes 110 Language Change at Work: Bound Morphemes Becoming Free 110 Inflectional and Derivational Bound Morphemes 111 Inflectional Morphemes 111 Derivational Morphemes 112 Language Change at Work: The Origins of Inflectional -s 112 Affixes and Combining Forms 113 Morphology Trees 114 A Question to Discuss: What about Complex Words That Seem to Have Only One Morpheme? 116 Ways of Forming English Words 116 Combining 117 Shortening 118 A Question to Discuss: Is It Clipping or Backformation? 119 Language Change at Work: Alice in Wonderland and the Portmanteau 120 Blending 120 Shifting 120 Language Change at Work: Success RatDewey Decimal420IllustratedYesAge LevelCollege AudienceCopyright Date2009AuthorMichael Adams, Anne CurzanEdition Number2Number of Pages608 PagesLc Classification NumberPe1106.C876 2009Lccn2008-009346
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Publication Name: How English Works : a Linguistic Introduction
Language: English
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2008
Subject: Grammar & Punctuation, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 31.8 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 7.4 in
Author: Anne Curzan, Michael Adams
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