Table of Contents

Introduction Ralph W. Fasold and Jeff Connor-Linton; 1. The sounds of language Elizabeth Zsiga; 2. Words and their parts Donna Lardiere; 3. The structure of sentences David Lightfoot and Ralph Fasold; 4. Meaning Paul Portner; 5. Discourse Deborah Schiffrin; 6. Child language acquisition Kendall A. King; 7. Language and the brain Michael Ullman; 8. Language change Shaligram Shukla and Jeff Connor-Linton; 9. Dialect variation Natalie Schilling-Estes; 10. Language and culture Deborah Tannen; 11. The politics of language Ralph W. Fasold; 12. Writing Jeff Connor-Linton; 13. Second language acquisition Alison Mackey; 14. Computational linguistics Inderjeet Mani.

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This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.

About the Author

Ralph Fasold is Professor Emeritus and past Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Jeff Connor-Linton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

Reviews

'Fasold and Connor-Linton have created a very solid textbook by drawing on acknowledged experts in their own particular fields, a wise precaution perhaps when offering an approach to an entire subject and all the variety and contrasts that this now entails. The book could quite easily be used as a standard course text…' Times Higher Education Supplement '