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Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics is designed as a comprehensive introductory text for first and second-year university students of language and linguistics. It provides a chapter on each of the more established areas in linguistics such as lexicology, morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology, historical linguistics, and language typology and on some of the newer areas such as cross-cultural semantics, pragmatics, text linguistics and contrastive linguistics.
In each of these areas language is explored as part of a cognitive system comprising perception, emotion, categorisation, abstraction processes, and reasoning. All these cognitive abilities may interact with language and be influenced by language. Thus the study of language in a sense becomes the study of the way we express and exchange ideas and thoughts.
Table of contents
Preface
ix–xii
1. The cognitive basis of language: Language and thought
1–23
2. What’s in a word? Lexicology
25–48
3. Meaningful building blocks: Morphology
49–74
4. Putting concepts together: Syntax
75–100
5. The sounds of language: Phonetics and Phonology
101–126
6. Language, culture and meaning: Cross-cultural semantics
127–148
7. Doing things with words: Pragmatics
149–177
8. Structuring texts: Text linguistics
179–201
9. Language across time: Historical linguistics
203–230
10. Comparing languages: Language: classification, typology, and contrastive linguistics
