Language:An Introduction to the Study of Speech Language and culture,Sapir contends,are separate from each other,Contrary to conventional belief,language is not an expression of 'national temperament,'or of racial or geograhic influences,and is not an inherited skill. Against thisgeneral background,Professor Sapir analyzes,for student and common reader,the elements of language. Among these are the units of language (i.e.,the word with its 'radical' and 'grammatical' parts),grammatical concepts and their origins,how languages differ and resemble one another,and the history of the growth of representative languages. Written more than fifty years ago,language stands as one of the clearest and most comprehensive surveys of its subject in English.
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Preface by Halliday 王宗炎序 Preface by Chomsky 沈家煊序 導(dǎo)讀 Chapter 1 The Study of Language Chapter 2 The Use of Language Chapter 3 Speech-Communities Chapter 4 The Languages of the World Chapter 5 The phoneme Chapter 6 Types of Phonmes Chapter 7 Mosifications Chapter 8 Phonetic Structure Chapter 9 Meaning Chapter 10 Grammatical Forms Chapter 11 Sentence-Types Chapter 12 Synetax Chapter 13 Morphology Chapter 14 Morphologic Types Chapter 15 Substitution Chapter 16 Form-Classes and Lexicon Chapter 17 Written Records Chapter 18 The Comparative Method Chapter 19 Dialect Geography Chapter 20 Phonetic Change Chapter 21 Types of Phonetic Change Chapter 22 Fluctuation in the Frequency of Forms Chapter 23 Analogic Change Chapter 24 Semantic Change Chapter 25 Cultural Borrowing Chapter 26 Intimate Borrowing Chapter 27 Dialect Borrowing Chapter 28 Applications and Outlook Notes Bibligrathy Table of Phonetic Symbols 文庫索引 Chapter 29