This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way. By surveying the several major divisions of language (phonology, morphology, syntax, lexis, tropology) and explicating the way in which sound and meaning cohere in them, this text lays bare––for students, scholars and advanced readers alike––the lineaments of an understanding of what makes language the sign system par excellence, in the service of its most important function as the instrument of cognition and of communication. This book is intended as a companion volume to Shapiro’s The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage. The two volumes taken in tandem will provide a solid grounding in the observational science of linguistics, linking theory with practice in a way that will expand one’s understanding of language as a global phenomenon.
Table of Content
List of AbbreviationsList of Tables and Figures
Introduction
PART ONE: THEORETICAL PROLEGOMENA
Chapter 1. Peirce’s Theory of Signs
Chapter 2. a Peircean theory of grammar
PART TWO: LANGUAGE AS SEMIOTIC
Chapter 3. phonology
Chapter 4. morphophonemics and morphology
Chapter 5. semantics
Chapter 6. syntax
Chapter 7: tropology and stylistics
Chapter 8. language change
Appendices
References
Index
About the author
Michael Shapiro, Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Semiotic Studies at Brown University, was born in Yokohama, spent World War II in Japan, and grew up speaking Russian, Japanese, and English. He earned degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures at UCLA (A. B., ‘61) and Harvard (A. M., ‘62; Ph. D. ‘65). Besides Brown and Columbia, he has taught at UCLA, Princeton, UC Berkeley, and Green Mountain College, and has given over one hundred public lectures to academic audiences all over the world.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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