Synopses & Reviews
Concise Introduction to Linguistics, A, 2/e
Bruce M. Rowe and Diane P. Levine (Both of Los Angeles Pierce College)
This student-friendly and well-balanced overview of the field of introductory linguistics pays special attention to linguistic anthropology, reveals the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication, and explores how issues of culture are relevant to the field
Its workbook format contains well-constructed exercises in every chapter that allow students to test their understanding of key concepts.
Highlights of This New Edition:
- Expanded discussion of grammaticality and grammaticality judgments (Chapter 5). The discussion focuses on the subconscious knowledge of the fluent speakers of a language to determine whether or not an utterance is grammatical (well-formed) or ungrammatical (ill-formed).
- Expanded and updated discussion of lexical categories (Chapters 4 and 5). Included is a discussion of the traditional parts of speech and the lexical categories used by contemporary linguistics.
- More information about the process of language acquisition after four years of age (Chapter 8). The discussion of first-language acquisition has been expanded to include information on older children.
- A new section on the question of whether or not English should be the official language of the United States (Chapter 7).
- Clear description of the differences between the IPA and the APA (Chapter 2).
- New boxed materials include:
Miscommunication Based on Cultural Differences (Chapter 1) introduces the concept of culture shock and ethnocentrism.
Etic and Emic (Chapter 3)
The Acquisition of Syntax in Children Five to Ten Years Old (Chapter 8)
Synopsis
This student-friendly and well-balanced overview of the field of introductory linguistics pays special attention to linguistic anthropology and reveals the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication and how issues of culture are relevant. Its workbook format contains well-constructed exercises in every chapter that allow students to practice key concepts.
Synopsis
This student-friendly and well-balanced overview of the field of introductory linguistics pays special attention to linguistic anthropology and reveals the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication and how issues of culture are relevant. Its workbook format contains well-constructed exercises in every chapter that allow students to practice key concepts.
Synopsis
This student-friendly and well-balanced overview of the field of introductory linguistics pays special attention to linguistic anthropology and reveals the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication and how issues of culture are relevant.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1 The Nature of Communication
The Nature of Communication
Nonhuman and Human Communication Compared
Chimpanzees and Gorillas in Controlled Environments
Skepticism over Ape Language Studies
Summary
Suggested Reading
Suggested Websites
Review of Terms and Concepts
End of Chapter Questions
Chapter 2 The Phonological Component: Phonetics
Articulatory Phonetics
Consonants and Vowels
Syllables and Syllabic Consonants
Suprasegmentals
Connected Speech
Summary
Suggested Reading
Suggested Websites
Review of Terms and Concepts
End of Chapter Exercises
Chapter 3 The Phonological Component: Phonology
The Phoneme and the Concept of Significant Differences in Sounds
Distinctive Feature Analysis
Phonological Processes
The Continuous and Complex Nature of Speech, Revised
Summary
Suggested Reading
Suggested Websites
Review of Terms and Concepts
End of Chapter Exercises
Chapter 4 The Morphological Component
The Morpheme
Morphological Typology
How New Words Are Formed
Lexical Categories
Summary
Suggested Reading
Suggested Websites
Review of Terms and Concepts
End of Chapter Exercises
Chapter 5 Syntax
Syntactic Construction
Grammaticality Judgments and Ambiguity
The Constituent Structure of Sentences
Phrase Structure Rules
Transformational Rules
Optional and Obligatory Transformations
Summary
Suggested Reading
Suggested Websites
Review of Terms and Concepts
Chapter 6 Semantics and Pragmatics
The Meaning of Words: Lexical Semantics
The -Nyms
Other Kinds of Meaning: Structural Semantics
Pragmatics
Summary
Suggested Reading
Suggested Websites
Review of Terms and Concepts
Fieldwork Project
Chapter 7 Semantics and Linguistic Anthropology
Regional Dialects
African American English
Hispanic English
Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles
Situational Dialects or Registers
Gender and Language
Linguistic Anthropology
Language and Nationalism
Summary
Suggested Reading
Suggested Websites
Review of Terms and Concepts
Chapter 8 Language Acquisition
Language and the Brain
Ideas about Language Acquisition
How Do Children Acquire the Components of Language?
Language Socialization: Three Examples
The Acquisition of Sign Language
Bilingualism
Summary
Suggested Reading
Suggested Websites
Review of Terms and Concepts
Chapter 9 Sign Language
The Nature of Sign Language
What Is ASL?
Nicaraguan Sign