Language Introductory Readings
by Clark, Virginia; Eschholz, Paul; Rosa, Alfred; Simon, Beth LeeFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-12-27
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Summary
Languageoffers a broad selection of groundbreaking historical studies and up-to-the-minute research for introductory courses in linguistics. Classic readings have been retained and updated to provide an authoritative, timely survey of the essential issues of language study. New articles introduce areas of debate on language variation; issues of language, culture and gender; global varieties of English; and language extinction. This solid collection introduces students to the foundations of the field and offers extensive resources for further study.
Author Biography
VIRGINIA CLARK was a professor of English at the University of Vermont and served as chair of the English department. With Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa, she is the author of Language Awareness, Ninth Edition.
ALFRED ROSA and PAUL ESCHHOLZ are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Rosa and Eschholz have collaborated
on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin’s, including Subject and Strategy, Eleventh Edition (2008); Models for Writers, Ninth Edition (2007); and Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers, Fourth Edition (1995).
BETH LEE SIMON is Professor of Linguistics and English at Indiana University Purdue University. Her scholarly work includes the recent volume, Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at Heartland English. She was an editor of the five-volume Dictionary of American Regional English (Harvard/Belnap Press). She is also widely published in poetry, fiction and memoir.
ALFRED ROSA and PAUL ESCHHOLZ are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Rosa and Eschholz have collaborated
on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin’s, including Subject and Strategy, Eleventh Edition (2008); Models for Writers, Ninth Edition (2007); and Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers, Fourth Edition (1995).
BETH LEE SIMON is Professor of Linguistics and English at Indiana University Purdue University. Her scholarly work includes the recent volume, Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at Heartland English. She was an editor of the five-volume Dictionary of American Regional English (Harvard/Belnap Press). She is also widely published in poetry, fiction and memoir.
Table of Contents
PART I. LANGUAGE AND ITS STUDY
Harvey A. Daniels, Nine Ideas about Language
W.F. Bolton, Language: An Introduction
Karen Emmorey, Sign Language
George A. Miller, Nonverbal Communication
]Jean Aitchison, Chimps, Children & Creoles
Harvey A. Daniels, Nine Ideas about Language
W.F. Bolton, Language: An Introduction
Karen Emmorey, Sign Language
George A. Miller, Nonverbal Communication
]Jean Aitchison, Chimps, Children & Creoles
PART II. THE SOUNDS OF LANGUAGE
Edward Callary, Phonetics
]Nancy Bonvillain, The Form of the Message
]Ohio State Language Files, What Is Phonology? Language Sounds and their Rules
PART III. LANGUAGE STRUCTURES: WORDS AND PHRASES
Ohio State Language Files, Minimal Units of Meaning: Morphemes
H.A. Gleason, The Identification of Morphemes
]Janet A. Romich, Understanding Basic Medical Terminology
]Genine Lentine and Roger W. Shuy, Mc-: Meaning in the Marketplace
Frank Heny, Syntax: The Structure of Sentences
PART IV. LANGUAGE MEANING AND LANGUAGE USE
Steven Pinker, The Tower of Babel
Jean Aitchison, Bad Birds and Better Birds: Prototype Theories
Howard Gregory, Pinning Down Semantics
]Elaine Chaika, Pragmatics: Discourse Routines
]Ronald Wardhaugh, Talk and Action
PART V. THE HISTORY OF LANGUAGE
Jeanne H. Herndon, Comparative and Historical Linguistics
Ohio State Language Files, Family Tree and Wave Models
Paul Roberts, A Brief History of English
]Lee Pederson, Dialects
]Celia M. Millward, The Origins of Writing
PART VI. LANGUAGE VARIATION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION
Paul Roberts, Speech Communities
]Ronald Macaulay, Regional Dialects and Social Class
]Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes, Standards and Vernaculars
]Oakland, CA School Board, Revised Oakland Resolution on Ebonics
]John Rickford, Suite for Ebony and Phonics
]James Crawford, Endangered Native American Language
PART VII. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
David Crystal, Pidgins and Creoles
]George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By
]Nicholas Evans, A Myth: Aborigines Speak a Primitive Language
Stephen J. Caldas and Suzanne Caron-Caldas, Rearing Bilingual Children in a Monolingual Culture
Nancy Lord, Native Tongues
Laura Bohannan, Shakespeare in the Bush
PART VIII. LANGUAGE AND GENDER
]Mary Talbot, Language and Gender
]Fern L. Johnson, Discourse Patterns of Males and Females
Deborah Tannen, ‘I'll Explain It to You': Lecturing and Listening
Deborah Tannen, Ethnic Style in Male-Female Conversation
PART IX. LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND THE BRAIN
Jeannine Heny, Brain and Language
William Kemp and Roy Smith, Signals, Signs, and Words: From Animal Communication to Language
Breyne Arlene Moskowitz, The Acquisition of Language
Eric H. Lenneberg, Developmental Milestones in Motor and Language Development
George A. Miller and Patricia M. Gildea, How Children Learn Words
Victoria L. Fromkin, Stephen Krashen, Susan Curtiss, David Rigler, Marilyn Rigler and Mayan Pines, The Development of Language in Genie and Postscript
]Richard Wolkomir, American Sign Language: ‘It's Not Mouth Stuff — It's Brain Stuff'
PART X. WORLD ENGLISHES; GLOBAL LANGUAGES
]David Crystal, Why a Global Language?
]Richard W. Bailey, Attitudes Toward English: The Future of English in South Asia
]John McWhorter, Natural Seasonings: The Linguistic Melting Pot
PART XI. LANGUAGE IN THE CLASSROOM
John P. Hughes, Languages and Writing
John Algeo, What Makes Good English Good?
]Victoria Fromkin, Robert Rodman and Nina Hyams, Reading, Writing, and Speech
]Shirley Brice Heath, What No Bedtime Story Means
]Suzanne F. Peregoy and Owen F. Boyle, English Language Learners in School
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