Preface
Chapter 1 Languages and Linguistics
What Do You Think?
How the United States Have an Official Language?
English-Only,English Plus,Multilingualism
What Is Human Language?
Theree Faces of a Languatge System
Laguage:Mental and Social
Signs:Arbitrary and Nonarbitrary
Arbitrary Signs
epresentational Signs
Language-A System of Arbitrary Signs
Languages as Patterned Structures
Discreteness
Duality
Speech as Patterned Language Use
The Origin of Languages:Babel to Babble
Languages and Diaiects
What Are Social Dialects?
Different Dialects or Different Languages?
What Is a Standard Variety?
Is There a Right and a Wrong in English Usage?
Modes of Linguistic Communication
Speaking
Writing
Signing
Do Animals Have Language?
How Animals Communicate in Their Natural Environment
Can Chimpanzees Learn a Human Language?
Did Project Nim Fail?
What Is Linguistics?
What are the Branches of Linguistics?
Computers and Linguistics
Summary
What Do You Think?Revisited
Exercises
Especially for Educators and Future Teachers
Othes Resources
Internet
Videos
Suggestions for Further Reading
Advanced Reading
References
Chapter 2 Words and Their Parts:Lexicon and Morphology
Chapter 3 The Sounds of Languages:Phonetics
Chapter 4 Sound Systems of Language:Phonology
Chapter 5 The Structure and Function of Phrases and Sentences:Syntax
Chapter 6 The Study of Meaning:Semantics
Chapter 7 Language Universals and Language Typology
Chapter 8 Information Structure and Pragmatics
Chapter 9 Speech Acts and Conversation
Chapter 10 Registers and Styles :Language Variation across Situations of Use
Chapter 11 Language Variation Among Social Groups:Dialects
Chapter 12 Writing
Chapter 13 Language Change over Time:Historical Linguistics
Chapter 14 Historical Development in English
Chapter 15 Acquiring First and Second Languages

Preface
Chapter 1 Languages and Linguistics
What Do You Think?
How the United States Have an Official Language?
English-Only,English Plus,Multilingualism
What Is Human Language?
Theree Faces of a Languatge System
Laguage:Mental and Social
Signs:Arbitrary and Nonarbitrary
Arbitrary Signs
epresentational Signs
Language-A System of Arbitrary Signs
Languages as Patterned Structures
Discreteness
Duality
Speech as Patterned Language Use
The Origin of Languages:Babel to Babble
Language...