Understanding Language

Introduction
Part I: The Study of Language
1: What Every Native Speaker of a Language Secretly Understands
Part II: Defining Human Language and Acquisition
2: Human Language vs Animal Communication
3: First and Second Language Acquisition
4: Language, the Brain, and the Mind
Part III: Structures of Language
5: The Sound System: Phonetics and phonology
6: Morphology: Words and their Attachments
7: Grammar: The Structure of Language
Part IV: Language in Use
8: Semantics: Language and Meaning
9: Pragmatics: Language in use
10: Language and Gender: Change at the Intersection of Grammar, Meaning, and Use
Part V: Where are Languages Going and Where have they Been? Language Change and Variation
11: Language Variation and Change
12: World Englishes
References
Glossary
Index

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• Estudos de comunicação
• Linguística

English language; native speaker; human language; animal communication; first language acquisition; second language learning; language and the brain; structures of language; phonetics; phonology; morphology; grammar; syntax; semantics; pragmatics; development of English; history of language; language variation; world Englishes