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Informationen zum Autor R.H. Robins Klappentext The fourth edition of General Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to linguistics.The book considers:- semantics and pragmatics- dialect and style- phonetics and phonology- morphology and syntax, with reference both to traditional and current theories- comparative-historical linguistics and linguistic typology- linguistics' relation to other disciplines- the practical application of linguistics- the 2,500 years of linguistic thought that lies behind what we do and think today Zusammenfassung The fourth edition of General Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to linguistics. The book considers: - semantics and pragmatics - dialect and style - phonetics and phonology - morphology and syntax, with reference both to traditional and current theories - comparative-historical linguistics and linguistic typology - linguistics' relation to other disciplines - the practical application of linguistics - the 2,500 years of linguistic thought that lies behind what we do and think today Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: General linguistics - the scope of the subject: linguistics as the study of language, and as a science; semantics Part 2: Theoretical and methodological considerations : abstractions; dialect, idiolect, style; the structural treatment of lexical meaning Part 3: Phonetics : articulatory phonetics; the organs of speech; segmentation - vowel and consonant; acoustic phonetics; plurisegmental features; phonetics in linguistics Part 4: Phonology : speech and writing; narrow and broad transcription; the phoneme theory; further developments Part 5: Grammar - grammatical elements : the sentence; the word; the morpheme; the semantic status of morphemes Part 6: Grammar - grammatical classes , structures and categories: syntactic relations; word classes; immediate constituents; grammatical categories; subclasses and irregularities; transformational-generative linguistics (TG), the theory of syntax, generalized phase structure grammar (GPSG), dependency grammars, post-"structuralist" theories, tagmemics, M.A.K.Halliday - systemic grammar, and stratificational linguistics Part 7: Linguistic comparison : historically orientated comparison of languages (comparative and historical linguistics); typological comparison Part 8: Wider perspectives : linguistics and anthropology; - and sociology; - and philosophy; - and psychology; - and language teaching; - and communications engineering; - and literature; outline of the history of linguistic studies in Western Europe ...
