ENGL6360 Descriptive Linguistics for Teachers
About This Book
1 What even is language? 1.1 What even is language? We’re all users of language. Right now, people around you might be speaking in a variety of American English, and I bet many of you also know one or more other languages. Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. That definition is short, but it’s not exactly simple, is it? How do we study language scientifically? And what even is language? The word language is used for several different complex concepts that are interconnected wit
| Category | education |
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| Subject | Language and Linguistics, Education |
| Year | 2023 |
| Authors | |
| Chapters | 21 |
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| Institution | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| License | Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 2 What grammars are and aren’t
- 3 Studying language scientifically
- 4 Thinking about standards and “proper” grammar
- 5 Doing harm with language science
- 6 Doing good with language science
- 7 Modality
- 8 Speech Articulators
- 9 Describing Consonants: Voicing
- 10 Describing Consonants: Place of Articulation
- 11 Describing Consonants: Manner of articulation
- 12 Describing Vowels
- 14 Types of Phonological Rules
- 19 Derivational Morphology
- 23 Structure within the sentence
- 24 Functional categories
- 28 The Cooperative Principle
- 30 Language Varies
- 33 Sociolinguistic correlations: Place
- 34 Sociolinguistic correlations: Social status
- 35 Sociolinguistic correlations: Gender
- 36 Sociolinguistic correlations: Ethnicity