How English Works A Linguistic Introduction 3rd Edition by Anne Curzan, Michael Adams ISBN 1292026529 9781292026527

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ISBN 10: 1292026529
ISBN 13: 9781292026527
Author: Anne Curzan, Michael Adams

How English Works A Linguistic Introduction 3rd Table of contents:

1. A Language Like English

• The Story of Aks

• Language, Language Everywhere

• The Power of Language

• Name Calling

• Judging by Ear

• A Question to Discuss: What Makes Us Hear an Accent?

• The System of Language

• Arbitrariness and Systematicity

• A Scholar to Know: Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913)

• Creativity

• Grammar

• Linguistics

• Human Language versus Animal Communication

• Distinctive Characteristics of Human Language

• The Process of Language Change

• Language Genealogies

• Mechanics of Language Change

• Progress or Decay?

• A Question to Discuss: Can Your Language Peeves Be Rethought?

• Special Focus: Attitudes about Language Change

2. Language and Authority

• Who Is in Control?

• Language Academies

• Language Mavens

• A Question to Discuss: Does the SAT Know Good Grammar from Bad?

• Defining Standard English

• Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Grammar

• Case Studies: Multiple Negatives, Ain’t, Who and Whom

• Spoken vs. Written Language

• A Question to Discuss: Are We Losing Our Memories?

• Dictionaries of English

• The History of English Dictionaries

• American Lexicography

• A Question to Discuss: Should Dictionaries Ever Prescribe?

• Usage and Style

• Special Focus: Corpus Linguistics

3. English Phonology

• Phonetics and Phonology

• Anatomy of Speech

• The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)

• English Consonants and Vowels

• Language Change at Work

• Phonemes and Allophones

• Minimal Pairs

• Phonological Rules: Assimilation, Deletion, Insertion, Metathesis

• Syllables and Phonotactic Constraints

• Special Focus: History of English Spelling

4. English Morphology

• Morphemes: Free, Bound, Inflectional, Derivational

• Morphological Analysis

• Word Formation Processes:

  • Compounding

  • Shortening

  • Blending

  • Shifting

  • Reanalysis

  • Reduplication

• Borrowing and Multicultural Vocabulary

• A Question to Discuss: What’s Wrong with amorality?

• Special Focus: Slang and Creativity

5. English Syntax: The Grammar of Words

• Lexical Categories: Open vs. Closed Class

• Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs

• Prepositions, Conjunctions, Pronouns, Determiners, Auxiliaries

• Challenges to Categorization

• Special Focus: Descriptive Syntax and Prescriptive Rules

6. English Syntax: Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences

• Generative Grammar

• Universal Grammar

• Constituents and Phrase Structure Rules

• Clause Types and Hierarchies

• Phrase Structure Trees (Basic and Complex)

• Transformations: Questions, Negation, Passives

• Special Focus: Syntax and Prescriptive Grammar

7. Semantics

• Meaning and Reference

• Lexical Relations: Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms

• Prototype Semantics

• Conceptual Metaphor and Analogy

• Semantic Change

• Linguistic Relativity

• Special Focus: Politically Correct Language

8. Spoken Discourse

• Speech Act Theory

• Cooperative Principle and Grice’s Maxims

• Politeness Theory and Face

• Discourse Markers

• Conversation Analysis

• Style Shifting and Indexical Meaning

• Special Focus: Do Men and Women Speak Differently?

9. Stylistics

• Text Types: Genre and Register

• Narrative Structure

• Dialogue and Speech Acts

• Word Choice: Diction, Modality, Metaphor

• Poetics and Prosody

• Special Focus: What Makes “Good Writing”?

10. Language Acquisition

• Theories of Acquisition

• Language and the Brain

• Phonological, Lexical, and Syntactic Development in Children

• Parentese and Its Role

• Special Cases: Pidgins, Creoles, Nicaraguan Sign Language

• Critical Period Hypothesis

• Disorders: Aphasia, Dyslexia

• Special Focus: Children and Bilingualism

11. Language Variation

• Dialect vs. Language

• Standard and Nonstandard Varieties

• Sociolinguistic Variables: Age, Gender, Class, Race, Networks

• Dialect Contact and Language Contact

• Pidgins and Creoles

• Speaker Attitudes

• Special Focus: Code-Switching

12. American Dialects

• Dialect and Identity

• Regional Dialects: Northern, Southern, Midland, Western

• Social Variation: Chicano English, African American English

• Case Studies and Historical Development

• Special Focus: The Ebonics Controversy

13. History of English: Old to Early Modern English

• Old English (449–1066): Origins, Grammar, Lexicon

• Middle English (1066–1476): French Influence, Loss of Inflection

• Early Modern English (1476–1776): Standardization, Printing Press, Lexical Growth

• Language Change at Work: The Great Vowel Shift

14. History of English: Modern and Future English

• Modern English (1776–Present):

  • Word Formation

  • Global English

  • Media, Globalization, Technology

• English Worldwide

• The Future of English

• English and Digital Communication

• Language Change at Work: Retronymy and Reduplication

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