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010 _a 2016023663
020 _a9781316604410 (Paperback)
020 _a9781107149939 (Hardback)
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_beng
_cDLC
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_dDLC
042 _apcc
050 0 0 _aP53.454
_b.R63 2017
082 0 0 _a410
_223
_bR.I.W
100 1 _aRoberts, Ian G.,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe wonders of language :
_bor How to make noises and influence people /
_cIan Roberts, University of Cambridge.
246 3 0 _aHow to make noises and influence people
264 1 _aCambridge, United Kingdom :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2017
264 4 _c©2017
300 _ax, 230 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. How to make noises - phonetics; 2. How to organise noises - phonology; 3. How to build a word - morphology; 4. How to say absolutely anything you want to - syntax; 5. How to build a world - semantics; 6. How to influence people - pragmatics; 7. How to find lost languages - historical linguistics; 8. How to influence the right people - sociolinguistics; 9. How to lose a language and how to learn a language - psycholinguistics; 10. How to build a language - language typology and universals.
520 _a"Ian Roberts offers a stimulating introduction to our greatest gift as a species: our capacity for articulate language. We are mostly as blissfully unaware of the intricacies of the structure of language as fish are of the water they swim in. We live in a mental ocean of nouns, verbs, quantifiers, morphemes, vowels and other rich, strange and deeply fascinating linguistic objects. This book introduces the reader to this amazing world. Offering a thought-provoking and accessible introduction to the main discoveries and theories about language, the book is aimed at general readers and undergraduates who are curious about linguistics and language. Written in a lively and direct style, technical terms are carefully introduced and explained and the book includes a full glossary. The book covers all the central areas of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, as well as historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aLanguage awareness.
650 0 _aSpeech acts (Linguistics)
650 0 _aApplied linguistics.
650 0 _aLanguage acquisition.
650 0 _aLinguistics
_xStudy and teaching.
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_cBK