LIN150-2014fa

LIN 150 Introduction to Linguistics

Tiffany Erin Judy http://romancelanguages.wfu.edu/faculty/Tiffany%20Judy.html

http://linguistics.wfu.edu/linguists_and_program_WFU.html

The social phenomenon of language: how it originated and developed, how it is learned and used, its relationship to other kinds of behavior; types of language (oral, written, signed) and language families; analysis of linguistic data; social issues of language use. (Counts as either Linguistics 150 or, in Division 4, Anthropology 150; also satisfies Cultural Diversity requirement under either designation.)

textbooks

Contemporary Linguistics

by William O'Grady, John Archibald, Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller

Paperback: 688 pages

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's; Sixth Edition edition (August 13, 2009)

ISBN-10: 0312555288

ISBN-13: 978-0312555283

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Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

Author: Steven Pinker

http://stevenpinker.com/publications/language-instinct

Series: Perennial Classics

Paperback: 544 pages

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics; 1 edition (November 7, 2000)

ISBN-10: 0060958332

ISBN-13: 978-0060958336

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