Social Art Language and Its Uses

Name: Social Art Language and Its Uses
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ISBN: 9780195187960

ISBN-10: 0195187962

ISBN-13: 9780195187960

Edition: 2nd 2006 (Revised)

Authors: Ronald Macaulay

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The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters, topics like language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others.In this revised and expanded second edition, Macaulay brings the book up to date with the last decade of progress in linguistics, adding more American examples, and updating bibliographies. Two new chapters have been added, on theories of language development and on the evolution of language. The Social Art is…

Book details

List price: $41.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/2/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English




Give a dog a name



Learning one's first language



The act of communicating



Prosodic features



Learning about words and their structure



Discovering the structure of language : syntax



More syntax



Still more syntax



Semantics



Pragmatically speaking



Theories of language development



Variety



Regional dialects



Social class



Written language



Register



Style



Sex differences



The magic of words



Rhetoric



Conversation



Narratives



Learning a second language



The evolution of language



Language change



The history of English



Indo-European



Languages of the world



Language and thought



Pronouns



Gender



Pidgins and Creoles



Literature



Children's lore and language



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