Introducing Linguistics
A Graphic Guide
Published on 5. June 2014
176 pages
978-1-84831-771-0 (ISBN)
Description
Covering thinkers from Aristotle to Saussure and Chomsky, "Introducing Linguistics" reveals the rules and beauty that underlie language, our most human skill.
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R.L. Trask was a professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex. A hugely acclaimed specialist in historical linguistics, his work on the Basque language made him among the world's foremost authorities on the subject. He died in 2004. Bill Mayblin trained as a graphic designer at the Royal College of Art in London. He is also the illustrator for Introducing Logic, Derrida and Empiricism.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- A Brief History of Linguistics
- An Indian Linguist
- The Greek Origins of Linguistics
- Grammar or Parts of Speech
- Latin Grammar
- Traditional Grammar
- The Port-Royal Grammar
- Historical Linguistics
- Ferdinand de Saussure
- Saussure's Lectures on General Linguistics
- Saussure's Structuralism
- An Example from English
- An Example from Spanish
- Synchronic and Diachronic Structures
- Trubetzkoy's Phonology
- Jakobson's Work on Linguistics
- Jakobson and Semiotics
- The Origins of American Linguistics
- Sapir's General Linguistics
- The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- Example of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
- A Pioneer of American Structuralism
- Post-Bloomfieldian Structruralists
- The Formalism of Zellig Harris
- Chomsky's Generative Grammar
- Transformational Grammar
- Chomsky's Programme
- Paradox of the TG Programme
- The Functional Approach
- What Does "Function" Communicate?
- Systemic Functional Linguistics: Texts
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Gendering Nouns
- Dyirbal Noun Genders
- Language Perception Differences
- Greek Perception of Time
- Metaphor
- What is Language?
- Natural Language
- Our Language Faculty
- What's Special About Human Languages?
- What do all Languages Have in Common?
- Linguistic Abilities
- Language Media
- Units of Writing
- Duality of Patterning
- Sign Languages
- Nicaraguan Sign Language
- Grammar and Word Order
- Different Examples of Word Order and Location
- Tense and Time
- Grammatical Differences
- Sign Language Grammar
- The Written Record of Language
- And Further Back .
- . to Old English
- The Never-ending Story
- Conservative Prescriptivism
- Historical Perspectives
- Explaining Systemic Correspondence
- The Indo-European Family and PIE
- The Remote Origins of English
- Eastern Ancestors of PIE
- The Saussurean Paradox
- Sociolinguistic Studies of Variation
- Male-versus-Female Speech
- Variation and Social Context
- Semantics
- Meanings Occur in Connections
- Pragmatics
- Pragmatic Issues
- Extending Pragmatics
- Where Does Language Come From?
- Skinner's Thesis Attacked by Chomsky
- Children Construct Rules
- Example of Active Construction
- Creating a Language
- Pidgin
- Creoles
- Chomsky's Universal Grammar
- What is the Rule?
- Linguistic Nativism
- Obstacles to Confirming UG
- Respectively, with Respect
- Innate or Acquired?
- Language Planning
- Engineering Basque
- Standard English
- Sexism in Language
- Sexist Attitudes
- Descriptivism
- Disordered Language
- Wernicke's Aphasia
- Neurolinguistics
- Specific Language Impairment
- Williams Syndrome
- A Psycholinguistic View of Language
- A Problem of Faulty Genes
- How Did Language Originate?
- What Do We Know Today?
- When Did Language Begin?
- The Gradualist Theory
- The Catastrophic Theory
- Criticism of the Gradualist View
- Bickerton's Conclusion
- Another Cognitive Example
- Differences of Metaphor
- Conflicting Speculations
- The Purposes of Language
- Further Reading
- Index
- Biographies
