Language in the real world
Subtitle: an introduction to linguistics
By: [edited by] Susan J. Behrens and Judith A. Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780415774673; 9780415774680
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section I: Language, education, and cultural change: 1. Language variation: students and teachers reflect on accents and dialects / Susan J. Behrens and Rebecca L. Sperling; title: 2. Speech communities: language as a mediator of messages and perceptions / Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth; title: 3. Teaching pronunciation: using phonology in the ESL and foreign language classroom / Joanna Labov; title: Section II: Literature, translation, and computers: 4. Lexicography: what dictionaries reveal about language and dictionary makers / Paul D. Fallon; title: 5. Text translation: approaching otherness / Mary Boldt and Esperanza Roncero; title: 6. Machine translation: the challenge of ambiguity / Nan Decker; title: 7. The n-word, the f-word, and and all that jazz: race, sex, and transgressive language in contemporary American literature and popular culture / Carmen Gillespie; title: Section III: Language, power, and identity: 8. Language, power, and sexual assault: women's voices on rape and social change / Judith A. Parker and Deborah Mahlstedt; title: 9. Gender, language, and power: surname or sirname? / Diana Boxer; title: 10. Linguistics as a forensic science: the case of author identification / Carole E. Chaski; title: Section IV: Forms of language and communication: 11. First language acquisition: developing native linguistic competence / Janine Graziano-King and Helen Smith Cairns; title: 12. ASL: a visual language / Miako Villanueva, Deanna Twain, and Laura Leigh Wood; title: 13. Animal communication: the "language" of honey bees / Wyatt A. Mangum; title: Section V: Language and communication science: 14. Communication disorders: a personal perspective / Ann D. Jablon; title: 15. Analyzing narratives: an example of cross-cultural research methods / Cecile L. Stein; title: 16. Neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics: contributions to understanding healthy aging and dementia / Yael Neumann, Linda Carozza, and Anastasia Georgiou; title: 17. Language of children with autism: the two worlds underlying verbal communication / Marion Blank and Mary Beth Cull.