02986cam a2200433 a 4500 17273586 BJBSDDR 20240305141136.0 ta 231126s2012 onc 001 0 eng d 2012372491 9781118091692 (pbk.) 1118091698 (pbk.) 9781118101575 (ebk.) (OCoLC)ocn759669155 NLC spa BJBSDDR BDX VP@ DLC eng lccopycat P 121 B974l 2012 410 Burton, Strang 33242 Linguistics for dummies / by Strang Burton, Rose-Marie Déchaine, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson. Toronto : J. Wiley & Sons Canada, c2012. xx, 364 pages ; 24 cm. For dummies 6615 Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction 1 Part I: Looking at Language through the Lens of Linguistics 7 Chapter 1: Knowing a Language Versus Knowing What Language Is 9 Chapter 2: Communicating with Language: The Design Features 21 Part II: The Building Blocks of Language 33 Chapter 3: Building Sounds: Phonetics 35 Chapter 4: Putting Sounds Together: Phonology 57 Chapter 5: Building Words: Morphology 77 Chapter 6: Creating Sentences: Syntax 95 Chapter 7: Making Sense of Meaning: Semantics 117 Chapter 8: Using Language in Conversation: Pragmatics 133 Part III: The Social Life of Language 151 Chapter 9: Living with Language Variation: Sociolinguistics 153 Chapter 10: Finding Family Relations: Historical Linguistics 171 Chapter 11: Cataloguing Differences: Linguistic Typology 189 Chapter 12: Beginning and Ending: Language Birth and Language Death 205 Part IV: Your Brain on Language: Learning and Processing Language 221 Chapter 13: Learning Language 223 Chapter 14: Perceiving Language 245 Chapter 15: Producing Language 259 Chapter 16: Locating Language in the Brain: Neurolinguistics 277 Part V: Getting from Speaking to Writing 293 Chapter 17: Writing Down Language 295 Chapter 18: Writing Changes You 307 Part VI: The Part of Tens 321 Chapter 19: Ten Myths about Language Busted by Linguistics 323 Chapter 20: Ten Unsolved Problems in Linguistics 331 Chapter 21: Top 10 Jobs for Linguists 337 Index 343 The fascinating, fun, and friendly way to understand the science behind human language Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics students study how languages are constructed, how they function, how they affect society, and how humans learn language. Linguistics. Lingüística 6270 Language and languages. Lenguaje y lenguas 5005 Déchaine, Rose-Marie 1960- 33244 Vatikiotis-Bateson, Eric 33245 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK fba 120366 120366 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-11-27 0 P 121 B974l 2012 00000175404 2023-11-27 00:00:00 1 2023-11-27 BK