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| Preface to 1st edition | |
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| Preface to 2nd edition | |
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| Preface to 3rd edition | |
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| Popular Ideas About Language | |
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| The prescriptive tradition | |
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| The equality of languages | |
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| The magic of language | |
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| The functions of language | |
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| Language and thought | |
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| Language and Identity | |
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| Physical identity | |
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| Psychological identity | |
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| Geographical identity | |
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| Ethnic and national identity | |
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| Social identity | |
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| Contextual identity | |
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| Stylistic identity and literature | |
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| The Structure of Language | |
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| Linguistic levels | |
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| Typology and universals | |
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| The statistical structure of language | |
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| Grammar | |
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| Semantics | |
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| Dictionaries | |
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| Names | |
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| Discourse and text | |
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| Pragmatics | |
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| The Medium of Language: Speaking and Listening | |
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| The anatomy and physiology of speech | |
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| The acoustics of speech | |
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| The instrumental analysis of speech | |
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| Speech reception | |
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| Speech interaction with machines | |
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| The sounds of speech | |
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| The linguistic use of sound | |
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| Suprasegmentals | |
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| Sound symbolism | |
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| The Medium of Language: Writing and Reading | |
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| Written and spoken language | |
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| Graphic expression | |
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| Graphology | |
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| The process of reading and writing | |
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| The Medium of Language: Signing and Seeing | |
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| Sign language | |
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| Sign language structure | |
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| Types of sign language | |
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| Child Language Acquisition | |
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| Investigating children's language | |
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| The first year | |
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| Phonological development | |
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| Grammatical development | |
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| Semantic development | |
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| Pragmatic development | |
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| Language development in school | |
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| Language, Brain, and Disability | |
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| Language and the brain | |
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| Language disability | |
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| The Languages of the World | |
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| How many languages? | |
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| How many speakers? | |
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| The origins of language | |
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| Families of language | |
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| The Indo-European family | |
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| Other families | |
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| Language isolates | |
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| Language change | |
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| Pidgins and creoles | |
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| Language in the World | |
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| The language barrier | |
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| Translating and interpreting | |
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| Artificial languages | |
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| World languages | |
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| Multilingualism | |
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| Language planning | |
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| Foreign language teaching and learning | |
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| Language for special purposes | |
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| Language and Communication | |
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| Language and other communication systems | |
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| Linguistics | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Special symbols and abbreviations | |
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| Table of the world's languages | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Index of languages, families, dialects, and scripts | |
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| Index of authors and personalities | |
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| Index of topics | |
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| Acknowledgements | |