Chapter 1 Preliminaries

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Language

1.3 Linguistics

1.4 A brief history of linguistics

1.5 Summary

Chapter 2 Phonetics and Phonology

2. 1 Introduction

2.2 Phonetics

2. 3 Phonology

2.4 Summary

Chapter 3 Morphology

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Morpheme

3.3 Morph and allomorph

3.4 Word formation

3.5 Summary

Chapter 4 Syntax

4. 1 Introduction

4. 2 The domain of synta

4. 3 Generative grammar

4. 4 Functional grammar

4. 5 Summary

Chapter 5 Semantics

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Word meaning

5.3 Semantic relations between words

5.4 Sentence meaning

5.5 Semantic relations between sentences

5.6 Mechanisms of semantic change

5.7 Summary

Chapter 6 Pragmatics

6. 1 Introduction

6. 2 Deixis

6. 3 Presupposition

6. 4 Speech acts

6.5 Conversational implicatures

6. 6 Conversation analysis

6. 7 Summary

Chapter 7 Discourse Analysis

7. 1 Discourse and discourse analysis

7.2 Information structure

7.3 Cohesion and coherence

7.4 Discourse marker

7.5 Multimodal discourse analysis

7.6 Critical discourse analysis

7.7 Summary

Chapter 8 Sociolinguistics

8. 1 Introduction

8.2 Language varieties

8.3 Language and gender

8.4 Choosing a code

8.5 Language planning

8.6 Methods for sociolinguistic investigation

8.7 Summary

Chapter 9 Stylistics

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Dimensions of variation

9.3 Stylistic codification

9.4 Linguistic approaches to stylistic analysis

9.5 Practical stylistics

9.6 Summary

Chapter 10 Psycholinguistics

10. 1 Introduction

10. 2 Language production

10. 3 Language comprehension

10. 4 Language acquisition

10. 5 Summary

Chapter 11 Cognitive Linguistics

11.1 Introduction

11.2 Categories and categorization

11.3 Conceptual metaphors

11.4 Conceptual metonymies

11.5 Image schemas

11.6 Construal

11.7 Iconicity

11.8 Summary

Chapter 12 Applied Linguistics

12. 1 Introduction

12.2 Some basic concepts

12.3 Second language acquisition

12.4 Second language teaching

12. 5 Language testing

12.6 Summary

Index

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