| Titre : |
An Introduction to Language (Linguistics in the World) |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Kirk Hazen, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
Chisester : Wiley and sons |
| Année de publication : |
2015 |
| Importance : |
(xvi-456 p.) |
| Présentation : |
couv. ill. en coul; ill. en noir |
| Format : |
25 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-470-65896-3 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
Languages & Language Language Arts. |
| Résumé : |
An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works its sounds, words, structures, and phrases all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture. * Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language, inviting students to consider what qualities of language comprise everyday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, or conversation * Helps shape our understanding of what language is, how it works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essential to who we are * Includes exercises within each chapter to help readers explore key concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of all human language. |
| Note de contenu : |
Glossary, index. |
An Introduction to Language (Linguistics in the World) [texte imprimé] / Kirk Hazen, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Chisester : Wiley and sons, 2015 . - (xvi-456 p.) : couv. ill. en coul; ill. en noir ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-0-470-65896-3 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Mots-clés : |
Languages & Language Language Arts. |
| Résumé : |
An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works its sounds, words, structures, and phrases all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture. * Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language, inviting students to consider what qualities of language comprise everyday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, or conversation * Helps shape our understanding of what language is, how it works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essential to who we are * Includes exercises within each chapter to help readers explore key concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of all human language. |
| Note de contenu : |
Glossary, index. |
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