2012年推薦新書~
Contemporary Linguistics:An Introduction
ISBN: 9781405899307
<2012.2月開始銷售>
Description
Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction is a comprehensive, fully up-to-date introduction to linguistics. All the core topics of linguistics are covered, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, the genetic and typological classification of the languages of the world, and historical linguistics. Interdisciplinary areas discussed include language and the brain, psycholinguistics – the study of language processing, first and second language acquisition, language in social contexts and the fast-growing area of computational linguistics.
Features
- Language Matters boxes providing more general interest reading.
- Extra student resources available in a Companion Website with additional coverage of topics treated in the text and organised to correspond to the chapters of the book. (www.pearsoned.co.uk/ogrady)
New to this Edition
This new edition has been fully revised and updated, and includes:
- Greater coverage of syntax
- A strong generativist approach, brought up-to-date
- A completely new chapter on the developments in functional-cognitive grammar by John Taylor
- A new chapter covering pragmatics and discourse analysis by Jenny Thomas
- A significantly updated chapter on sociolinguistics
- A new chapter on language endangerment by Francis Katamba