[内容简介]《语言论》: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.

[目次]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
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