R. H. Robins

General Linguistics (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The fourth edition of General Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to linguistics.The book considers:- semantics and pragmatics- dialect and style- phonetics and phonology- morphology and syntax, with reference both to traditional and current theories- comparative-historical linguistics and linguistic typology- linguistics' relation to other disciplines- the practical application of linguistics- the 2,500 years of linguistic thought that lies behind what we do and think today

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 470
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317887621
• Artikelnr.: 41327591

Autorenporträt

R.H. Robins

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: General linguistics - the scope of the subject: linguistics as the study of language, and as a science
semantics Part 2: Theoretical and methodological considerations: abstractions
dialect, idiolect, style
the structural treatment of lexical meaning Part 3: Phonetics: articulatory phonetics
the organs of speech
segmentation - vowel and consonant
acoustic phonetics
plurisegmental features
phonetics in linguistics Part 4: Phonology: speech and writing
narrow and broad transcription
the phoneme theory
further developments Part 5: Grammar - grammatical elements: the sentence
the word
the morpheme
the semantic status of morphemes Part 6: Grammar - grammatical classes, structures and categories: syntactic relations
word classes
immediate constituents
grammatical categories
subclasses and irregularities
transformational-generative linguistics (TG), the theory of syntax, generalized phase structure grammar (GPSG), dependency grammars, post-"structuralist" theories, tagmemics, M.A.K.Halliday - systemic grammar, and stratificational linguistics Part 7: Linguistic comparison: historically orientated comparison of languages (comparative and historical linguistics)
typological comparison Part 8: Wider perspectives: linguistics and anthropology
- and sociology
- and philosophy
- and psychology
- and language teaching
- and communications engineering
- and literature
outline of the history of linguistic studies in Western Europe