Why study linguistics

Why study linguistics /

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Main Authors: Denham, Kristin E., 1967- (Author), Lobeck, Anne C. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Series:Routledge guides to linguistics.
Subjects:
Linguistics > Vocational guidance.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

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505 0 0 |a Machine generated contents note:   |g 1.  |t Why read this book? --   |t Introduction to the book --   |t Who this book is for --   |t How to use this book --   |g 2.  |t Questions linguists ask --   |t What is linguistics? --   |t What is language? --   |t Human language versus other animal communication systems --   |t Hockett's design features of language --   |t What is a language? --   |t Language variation: languages and dialects --   |t Language change --   |t What does it mean to know a language? --   |t Our linguistic intuitions --   |t Linguistic competence and linguistic performance --   |t What is grammar? --   |t Our knowledge of grammar --   |t Prescriptive and descriptive grammar --   |t Universal Grammar --   |t First language acquisition --   |t Christopher the linguistic savant --   |t Contact languages and language genesis --   |t How do we study language scientifically? --   |t Gathering and analyzing data: the scientific method --   |t example of scientific inquiry: english wh-question formation --   |t Exploring data from other languages --   |g 3.  |t study of sound: phonetics and phonology --   |t Articulatory phonetics --   |t Phonological rules --   |t Auditory phonetics --   |t Allophones and phonemes --   |t Syllables --   |t Stress --   |t Tone and intonation --   |t Why study sound? --   |g 4.  |t study of words: morphology --   |t Morphemes --   |t Derivational and inflectional affixation --   |t Expanding inflectional morphology --   |t Word trees --   |t Types of categories --   |t Morphological typologies --   |t What is a word? --   |t Why study words? --   |g 5.  |t study of sentence structure: syntax --   |t Revisiting syntactic categories --   |t Phrase structure --   |t Hierarchical structure and recursion --   |t Syntactic ambiguity --   |t Syntactic typologies --   |t Movement --   |t Deletion --   |t Morphosyntax --   |t Why study sentence structure? --   |g 6.  |t study of meaning: semantics and pragmatics --   |t Semantic relationships among words --   |t Metaphor and figurative language --   |t Semantic relationships among sentences --   |t How sound and structure influence meaning --   |t How context shapes meaning: pragmatics --   |t Maxims of conversation --   |t Presupposition --   |t Politeness --   |t Speech acts --   |t Why study meaning? --   |g 7.  |t Studying language change: historical linguistics --   |t study of language in the eighteenth century --   |t comparative method and language family trees --   |t Proto-Indo-European --   |t Other language families --   |t Types of language change --   |t Morphological change --   |t Phonological change (sound change) --   |t Semantic change --   |t Syntactic change --   |t Why languages change --   |t Natural processes of language change --   |t Language acquisition --   |t Language contact --   |t Social identity --   |t Why study language change? --   |g 8.  |t Studying language variation: sociolinguistics --   |t Language variation and region --   |t Dialectology and lexical variation --   |t Phonological variation --   |t Factors affecting sound variation --   |t Morphological variation --   |t Syntactic variation --   |t Language attitudes and linguistic discrimination --   |t Language policy and planning --   |t Why study language variation? --   |g 9.  |t Studying language in the brain: psycholinguistics --   |t First language acquisition --   |t Language acquisition rules and strategies --   |t What kids `mistakes' tell us --   |t Studying language acquisition and syntax --   |t Psycholinguistics and Idioma de Senas de Nicaragua --   |t Brain lateralization and language functions --   |t Aphasia and localization --   |t Factors affecting language in the brain --   |t Experimental methodologies --   |t Sentence processing --   |t Why study psycholinguistics? --   |g 10.  |t After studying linguistics --   |t Careers in education --   |t Linguistics professor at a college or university --   |t K12 education --   |t Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) --   |t Testing agencies --   |t Non-profits --   |t Speech language pathologist --   |t Editing and publishing, journalism --   |t Lexicography --   |t Tech industry --   |t Marketing and advertising --   |t Language documentation and revitalization --   |t Forensic linguistics --   |t Polyglot jobs --   |t Lots of other things!. 
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