Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication
Language: English
Published by The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England, 1981
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- Title
- Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication
- Author
- Adrian Akmajian, Richard A. Demers, Robert M. Harnish
- Publisher
- The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England
- Publication year
- 1981
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- not applicable (no jacket)
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0262510197
- ISBN 13
- 9780262510196
- Edition
- Fifth printing, July 1981.
Part I deals with animal communication systems, contrasting these with human language. The study of bee, bird and primate communication systems is not only interesting to beginning students, it provides them with background concepts in communication that are developed and built on in the next section of the book.
Part II concentrates on human language. It covers major areas of linguistics, showing in each chapter how linguists analyze phenomena and establish hypotheses within their given subfields. This part of the book includes not only the traditional fundamentals of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, language variation, and language change but also includes a comprehensive chapter on the recently emerging field of pragmatics and linguistic communication.
Part III focuses on two special topics—neurolinguistics, the exciting nascent discipline of language and the brain, and the recent attempts to teach chimpanzees a form of language," a topic that allows students to integrate material already covered in the book in order to evaluate claims about the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees.
Students and teachers in linguistics will find the approach taken in this text both stimulating and challenging. Just as important, it presents crucial ideas from linguistics for students, teachers, and researchers in related fields such as philosophy, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence and computer science, speech and hearing sciences, neuroscience, anthropology, sociology, language teaching, and education, among others. By varying the selection of chapters and subsections in a particular course, teachers of different backgrounds and in different academic disciplines can "custom-make" an introductory linguistics course for their own purposes, whether the course is a basic general survey or a detailed approach to individual topics.
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