Bergmann, Anouschka/ Hall, Kathleen Currie/ Ross, Sharon Miriam 著
Language Files 是當前最受歡迎的「語言學入門」教材。原是Ohio State語言研究所師生就語言學基礎題目所共同編寫的教材及練習，出版後全美各大學紛紛採用。經過數度修纂，如今已邁入第十版，菊8開，七百多頁(比第九版多二百頁左右)。內容包含：Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language Acquisition, Language Storage and Processing, Language Variation, Language Contact, Language Change 等十六個範疇，實為大學語言概論等課程的最佳教材。
New in the 10th edition:
This edition has been significantly expanded and includes more than 25% new material.
Each chapter has been restructured to begin with a brief overview of the topic, including a comic that provides insight into the linguistic subfield covered in the chapter. Each chapter now also ends with a separate file containing practice exercises, discussion questions, and activities relevant to the chapter. Some chapters also contain recommended further readings following the exercises.
The discussion of signed languages has been expanded and incorporated throughout the text, such that examples of various linguistic phenomena (e.g., phonetic descriptions, phonological patterns, morphological structure, language variation and change, etc.) in signed languages are presented as they become relevant.
Several chapters have been updated in terms of their content, to incorporate more recent investigations and findings in linguistic research. These include the chapter on language variation, which now focuses solely on variability at different levels of linguistic structure and the causes of such variability (both regional and social), and a new chapter on language and culture, which includes other issues of sociolinguistic interest such as language and identity or language and power.
A new chapter has been added to help answer the common question of what one can do with a degree in linguistics. This chapter provides overviews of six practical ways that a linguistics education can be applied: language education, speech-language pathology and audiology, law, advertising, codebreaking, and the further study of linguistics.
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