The Cambridge encyclopedia of language / David Crystal.
"This new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study which have taken place since the mid-1990s. Two main new areas have been added: the rise of electronic communication in all its current forms, from email to...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Edition: | Third edition. |
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Physical Description: | 516 pages : illustrations (color) ; 29 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Preface to the first edition
- Preface to second edition
- Preface to 3rd edition
- I. Popular ideas about language
- 1. The prescriptive tradition
- 2. The equality of languages
- 3. The magic of language
- 4. The functions of language
- 5. Language and thought
- II. Language and identity
- 6. Physical identity
- 7. Psychological identity
- 8. Geographical identity
- 9. Ethnic and national identity
- 10. Social identity
- 11 Contextual identity
- 12. Stylistic identity and literature
- III. The structure of language
- 13. Linguistic levels
- 14. Typology and universals
- 15. The statistical structure of language
- 16. Grammar
- 17. Semantics
- 18. Dictionaries
- 19. Names
- 20. Discourse and text
- 21. Pragmatics
- IV. The medium of language : speaking and listening
- 22. The anatomy and physiology of speech
- 23. The acoustics of speech
- 24. The instrumental analysis of speech
- 25. Speech reception
- 26. Speech interaction with machines
- 27. The sounds of speech
- 28. The linguistic use of sound
- 29. Suprasegmentals
- 30. Sound symbolism
- V. The medium of language : writing and reading
- 31. Written and spoken language
- 32. Graphic expression
- 33. Graphology
- 34. The process of reading and writing
- VI. The medium of language : signing and seeing
- 35. Sign language
- 36. Sign language structure
- 37. Types of sign language
- VII. Child language acquisition
- 38. Investigating children's language
- 39. The first year
- 40. Phonological development
- 41. Grammatical development
- 42. Semantic development
- 43. Pragmatic development
- 44. Language development in school
- VIII. Language, brain, and disability
- 45. Language and the brain
- 46. Language disability
- IX. The languages of the world
- 47. How many languages?
- 48. How many speakers?
- 49. The origins of language
- 50. Families of language
- 51. The Indo-European family
- 52. Other families
- 53. Language isolates
- 54. Language change
- 55. Pidgins and creoles
- X. Language in the world
- 56. The language barrier
- 57. Translating and interpreting
- 58. Artificial languages
- 59. World languages
- 60. Multilingualism
- 61. Language planning
- 62. Foreign language teaching and learning
- 63. Language for special purposes
- XI. Language and communication
- 64. Language and other communication systems
- 65. Linguistics
- Appendices
- I. Glossary
- II. Special symbols and abbreviations
- III. Table of the world's languages
- IV. Further reading
- V. References
- VI. Index of languages, families, dialects, and scripts
- VII. Index of authors and personalities
- VIII. Index of topics
- Acknowledgements.