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100 1 $aCrystal, David,$d1941-
245 10 $aHow language works :$bhow babies babble, words change meaning, and languages live or die /$cDavid Crystal.
260 $aWoodstock, NY :$bOverlook Press,$c2006.
300 $axii, 500 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 485-486) and index.
505 0 $aIntroducing language -- 1. How what works? -- 2. How to treat body language -- 3. How we use the 'edges' of language -- Spoken language -- 4. How we make speech sounds : phase 1 -- 5. How we make speech sounds : phase 2 -- 6. How we transmit sounds -- 7. How we hear speech sounds -- 8. How we perceive speech -- 9. How we describe speech sounds -- 10. How we describe consonants and vowels -- 11. How we organize the sounds of speech -- 12. How we use tone of voice -- 13. How children learn speech sounds : the first year -- 14. How children learn speech sounds : later years -- 15. How speech can go wrong -- Written language -- 16. How we write -- 17. How we make writing systems : early times -- 18. How we make writing systems : modern times -- 19. How we read -- 20. How we write and spell -- 21. How we learn to read and write -- 22. How reading and writing can go wrong -- 23. How writing and speech differ -- 24. How the electronic medium differs -- Sign language -- 25. How sign language works.
505 0 $a26. How sign languages vary -- Language structure -- 27. How the brain handles language -- 28. How to investigate language structure -- 29. How we mean -- 30. How we analyse meaning -- 31. How we learn vocabulary -- 32. How children learn to mean -- 33. How dictionaries work -- 34. How names work -- 35. How vocabulary grows -- 36. How we study grammar -- 37. How words work -- 38. How we classify words -- 39. How sentences work -- 40. How we learn grammar -- Discourse -- 41. How we discourse -- 42. How conversation works -- 43. How we choose what to say -- 44. How we can't choose what to say -- Dialects -- 45. How we know where someone is from -- 46. How to study dialects -- 47. How we know what someone is : the ethnic issue -- 48. How we know what someone is : the social issue -- 49. Howe we know who someone is : the stylistic issue -- 50. How we know where someone is : the contextual issue -- 51. How dialects differ from languages -- Languages -- 52. How languages die -- 53. How languages are born -- 54. How language began -- 55. How language changes -- 56. how language families work -- 57. How the Indo-European family is organized -- 58. How other Eurasian families are organized, part one -- 59. How other Eurasian families ore organized, part two.
505 0 $a60. How the Indo-Pacific Island families are organized -- 61. How African families are organized -- 62. How American families are organized -- Multilingualism -- 63. How multilingualism works -- 64. How we cope with many languages : translate them -- 65. How we cope with many languages : supplement them -- 66. How we cope with many languages : learn them -- 67. How we cope with many languages : teach them -- 68. How we cope with many languages : plan them -- 69. How not to look after languages -- Looking after language -- 70. How to look after languages : recognizing principles -- 71. How to look after languages : recognizing functions -- 72. How to look after languages : recognizing varieties -- 73. Teaching people to look after languages.
650 0 $aLinguistics.
650 0 $aLanguage and languages.
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