Table of contents
Preface
1. The cognitive basis of language: Language and thought
2. What’s in a word? Lexicology
3. Meaningful building blocks: Morphology
4. Putting concepts together: Syntax
5. The sounds of language: Phonetics and Phonology
6. Language, culture and meaning: Cross-cultural semantics
7. Doing things with words: Pragmatics
8. Structuring texts: Text linguistics
9. Language across time: Historical linguistics
10. Comparing languages: Language: classification, typology, and contrastive linguistics
References
Subject index
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