General Linguistics
4th Edition
Published on 5. June 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
470 pages
978-0-582-29144-7 (ISBN)
Description
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
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
More details
Series
Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
587 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-582-29144-7 (9780582291447)
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Previous edition
Book
04/1980
Longman Higher Education
€18.51
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Person
R.H. Robins
Content
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
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