Sauer / Majewski My First Door to English Linguistics

A Short Companion to the Study of English
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-95809-419-2
Verlag: Stauffenburg
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

Reihe: Stauffenburg Einführungen

This book provides a brief and reader-friendly introduction to English linguistics. After a short survey of the history of linguistics, it deals with the main levels of spoken and written language, namely with phonetics and phonology, spelling and orthography, morphology (especially inflectional morphology), syntax, lexicology and lexicography (especially semantics, word-formation, idioms, and dictionaries). It moves on to text linguistics, pragmatics, standard and varieties, highlighting especially some of the main differences between British and American English. A sketch of the history of English is also provided: Indo-European, Germanic, Old and Middle English, Early Modern and Modern English. The book concludes with a brief introduction to historical linguistics, a chapter on contrastive aspects (comparing some features of English and German), and suggestions for further reading. The appendix lists the phonetic symbols for English; it also gives a few examples of dictionary entries.

"My First Door to English Linguistics" is intended for everybody interested in linguistics in general and in English linguistics in particular. It is mainly addressed to students of English who take an introductory course in linguistics; but the authors hope that it is also useful to exam candidates for a quick revision of the basic linguistic terms and concepts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sauer, Hans

Majewski, Kerstin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Contents;6
2;Acknowledgements;10
3;Abbreviations and Symbols;12
4;1. Introduction;14
5;2. History of Linguistics;16
6;3. The Levels of Language and their Description;26
7;4. Phonetics and Phonology;30
8;5. Spelling and Orthography;40
9;6. Morphology;44
10;7. Syntax;52
11;8. Lexicology and Lexicography;68
12;9. Text Linguistics;96
13;10. Pragmatics;100
14;11. Standard and Varieties;102
15;12. History of the English Language;116
16;13. Historical (Diachronic) Linguistics;130
17;14. Contrastive Aspects (English – German);140
18;15. Suggestions for Further Reading;144
19;16. List of Figures and Tables;150
20;17. Appendices;152
21;18. Indices;160
22;19. Bibliography;184

Über Autor(innen)

Majewski, Kerstin
Kerstin Majewski promoviert an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Englischer Sprachwissenschaft und mittelalterlicher englischer Literatur und arbeitet am Akademieprojekt RuneS (“Runische Schriftlichkeit in den Germanischen Sprachen”).

Sauer, Hans
Hans Sauer ist Professor em. für Englische Philologie (Schwerpunkte: englische Sprachwissenschaft und mittelalterliche englische Literatur) an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.