Introducing English Linguistics

Document Outline

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
  • Copyright acknowledgment
• CHAPTER 1 The study of language
  • Introduction
  • Language as part of a semiotic system
  • The modes of language
  • Studying linguistic structure
  • Language and ideology
  • Theorizing about language
  • Summary
  • Self-study activities
  • Further reading
• CHAPTER 2 The development of English
  • Introduction
  • The current state of the English language
  • Genetic classifications of languages
    • The comparative method
    • The development of English
  • Typological classifications of languages
    • Typological classifications based on morphology
    • Typological classifications based on syntax
    • Language typology and language universals
  • Why languages change
    • Change or evolution?
    • Internal and external influences on language change
    • Language death
  • The nature of language change
  • Summary
  • Self-study activities
  • Further reading
• CHAPTER 3 The social context of English
  • Introduction
  • Grammatical vs. pragmatic meaning
  • Sentence vs. utterance
  • Speech act theory
    • Felicity/appropriateness conditions
  • The cooperative principle
    • Quantity
    • Quality
    • Relation
    • Manner
    • Problems with the cooperative principle
  • Politeness
    • Power relationships and social distance
    • Levels of impoliteness, face-threatening acts, and tact
    • Other kinds of politeness
  • Speaker variables
    • Michael A.
    • Teresa B.
  • Summary
  • Self-study activities
  • Further reading
• CHAPTER 4 The structure of English texts
  • Introduction
  • Register or genre?
  • Spoken and written registers
  • Unity of structure
    • Spoken registers
    • Written registers
  • Unity of texture
    • Thematic structure
    • Markers of cohesion
  • Summary
  • Self-study activities
  • Further reading
• CHAPTER 5 English syntax
  • Introduction
  • Formal vs. notional definitions
  • The linear and hierarchical structuring of constituents
  • Form and function
  • Word classes and phrases
    • Noun phrases
    • The verb phrase
  • Clauses, sentences, and clause functions
    • Main and subordinate clauses
    • Clause functions
  • Summary
  • Self-study activities
  • Further reading
• CHAPTER 6 English words: Structure and meaning
  • Introduction
  • Varying definitions of meaning
  • The morpheme
    • Free and bound morphemes
    • Inflectional and derivational morphemes
  • Lexical semantics
    • English language dictionaries
    • Componential analysis
    • Semantic relations
    • Creating new vocabulary
  • Deixis
    • Referential deixis
    • Spatial deixis
    • Temporal deixis
  • Summary
  • Self-study activities
  • Further reading
• CHAPTER 7 The sounds of English
  • Introduction
  • Speech segments
    • The phonetic alphabet
    • English consonants
    • Vowels in English
    • Allophones and allomorphs
      • Nasal plosion
      • Devoicing of consonants
      • Voicing assimilation with English -s:
      • Place of articulation assimilation with negative prefixes
      • Alveolar flapping
      • Lengthening of vowels
  • Suprasegmentals
    • Syllables
    • Intonation
  • Summary
  • Self-study activities
  • Further reading
• Appendix: Linguistic corpora consulted
• Glossary
• Answers to self-study activities
  • 1 The study of language
  • 2 The development of English
  • 3 The social context of English
  • 4 The structure of English texts
  • 5 English syntax
  • 6 English words: Structure and meaning
  • 7 The sounds of English
• References
• Index