The Social Art Language and Its Uses
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- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
- Publish date: 04/01/1996
Description:
This engagingly written, highly readable volume introduces lay readers to the fascinating world of language. Replete with jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and readily intelligible examples, it offers a painless entree to the full range of linguistic knowledge. In thirty-one brief chapters, Macaulay delves into such topics as language acquisition, phonology, morphology. Syntax, semantics, social dialects, sex differences, writing, style, register, conversation, narrative, swearing, rhetoric, second language learning, and linguistic change. The reader comes away with a new appreciation of the pleasure t be derived from the study of this complex and uniquely human phenomenon.
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