Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation An Introduction to Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics for Nonspecialists

Name: Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation An Introduction to Applied Linguistics and Sociolinguistics for Nonspecialists
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ISBN: 9780472086863

ISBN-10: 0472086863

ISBN-13: 9780472086863

Edition: 2000

Authors: Steven Brown, Salvatore Attardo

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Written in an engaging tone that keeps technical language to a minimum, Understanding Language Structure, Interaction, and Variation is truly unique in that it provides a broad intro-duction to applied linguistics specifically for nonspecialists. Using clear, easy-to-understand explanations and examples, the text avoids the in-depth theoretical coverage found in texts written for those who plan to continue on in the field, while also avoiding the superficiality of linguistics books written for the general reader. As a result, students, most of whom will be prospective ESL/EFL or English teachers, learn about how language works in ways that will directly serve them when teaching. The text is…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 3/6/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

Salvatore Attardo, Ph.D., is Professor and Head of the Department of Literature and Languages at Texas A&M University-Commerce and at present is serving as Interim Dean for the College of Arts and Sciences.ï¿½ He holds degrees from The Catholic University of Milan (Doctorate, French Language and Literature, 1986) and Purdue University (Ph.D., Linguistics/English, 1991).ï¿½ He has published two books on the linguistics of humor, and he is also the Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research . ï¿½He has published extensively in pragmatics and semantics, primarily on issues relating to implicatures, irony, rationality and Neo-Gricean Pragmatics.ï¿½ His other areas of…

Introduction to Linguistics	p. 1
The Building Blocks of Language	p. 13
How Do We Mean Things?	p. 56
Sociolinguistics	p. 73
Language Variation	p. 87
Language and Social Groups	p. 101
Pidgins and Creoles	p. 113
African-American Vernacular English	p. 123
Language Policy	p. 138
Language and Gender	p. 154
Literacy	p. 164
First Language Acquisition	p. 178
Second Language Acquisition	p. 201
Language and Literature	p. 219
Linguistics in the Professions	p. 236
The Nature of Language	p. 258
Historical Linguistics	p. 273
Pedagogical Grammar	p. 307
English Grammar	p. 322
B: Glossary	p. 343
Bibliography	p. 371
Index	p. 388
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