This student friendly and well balanced overview of the field of introductory linguistics pays special attention to linguistic anthropology and reveals the main contributions of linguistics to the study of human communication and how issues of culture are relevant. Its workbook format contains well constructed exercises in every chapter that allow students to practice key concepts.
1. Introduction:The Nature of Communication
2. The phonological Component:Phonetics
3. The Phonological component:Phonology
4. The Morphological Component
5. Syntax
6. Semantics and Pragmatics
7. Sociolinguistics and linguistic Anthropolongy
8. Language Acquisition
9. Sign Language
10. Writing Systems
11. Nonverbal communication
12. Historical linguistics