The Social Art: Language and Its UsesThe Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages. Macaulay uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters, topics like language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others. In this revised and expanded second edition, Macaulay brings the book up to date with the last decade of progress in linguistics, adding more American examples, and updating bibliographies. Two new chapters have been added, on theories of language development and on the evolution of language. The Social Art is perfect for general readers and students who want to learn about what it is that linguists do. |
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Contents
1 Give a Dog a Name | 3 |
2 Learning Ones First Language | 7 |
3 The Act of Communicating | 11 |
4 Prosodic Features | 20 |
5 Learning About Words and Their Structure | 25 |
Syntax | 29 |
7 More Syntax | 35 |
8 Still More Syntax | 39 |
22 Narratives | 113 |
23 Learning a Second Language | 119 |
24 The Evolution of Language | 124 |
25 Language Change | 128 |
26 The History of English | 134 |
27 IndoEuropean | 145 |
28 Languages of the World | 151 |
29 Language and Thought | 158 |
9 Semantics | 43 |
10 Pragmatically Speaking | 49 |
11 Theories of Language Development | 54 |
12 Variety | 58 |
13 Regional Dialects | 63 |
14 Social Class | 69 |
15 Written Language | 77 |
16 Register | 85 |
17 Style | 89 |
18 Sex Differences | 93 |
19 The Magic of Words | 98 |
20 Rhetoric | 102 |
21 Conversation | 107 |
30 Pronouns | 162 |
31 Gender | 166 |
32 Pidgins and Creoles | 170 |
33 Literature | 175 |
34 Childrens Lore and Language | 182 |
Confessio Amantis | 192 |
Appendix | 195 |
Further Reading | 201 |
Glossary | 209 |
Phonetic Symbols for English | 225 |
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