A major introductory language/linguistics textbook written specifically for English and Education majors, this book is an engaging introduction to the structure of English, general theories in linguistics, and important issues in sociolinguistics.
This accessible text provides more extensive coverage of issues of particular interest to English and Education majors. Tapping into our natural curiosity about language, it invites all students to connect academic linguistics to everyday use of the English language and to become active participants in the construction of linguistic knowledge.
The second edition provides updated examples of language change-including new slang and other word coinages, grammatical developments, and sound changes-as well as new research findings on American dialects, language acquisition, language evolution, eggcorns, English and the Internet, and much more.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Brief Contents
Inside Front Cover Dialect Map of American English, Consonant Phonemes of American English, Vowel Phonemes of American English
Inside Back Cover Brief Timeline for the History of the English Language
Detailed Contents
List of Symbols, Linguistic Conventions, and Common Abbreviations
What�s New to This Edition
Preface to Instructors
Letter to Students
Chapter 1 A Language like English
Chapter 2 Language and Authority
Chapter 3 English Phonology
Chapter 4 English Morphology
Chapter 5 English Syntax: The Grammar of Words
Chapter 6 English Syntax: Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences
Chapter 7 Semantics
Chapter 8 Spoken Discourse
Chapter 9 Stylistics
Chapter 10 Language Acquisition
Chapter 11 Language Variation
Chapter 12 American Dialects
Chapter 13 History of English: Old to Early Modern English
Chapter 14 History of English: Modern and Future English
Glossary
Bibliography
Credits
Index
