TY - BOOK AU - Crystal,David,(ed) TI - The Cambridge encyclopedia of language SN - 0521550505 SN - 978052155 AV - P29 .C64 PY - 1997/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Language and languages KW - Dictionaries KW - Linguistics N1 - Includes Index; 1. Popular ideas about language -- The prescriptive tradition -- The equality of languages -- The magic of language -- The functions of language -- Language and thought -- 2. Language and identity -- Physical identity -- Psychological identity -- Geographical identity -- Ethnic and national identity -- Social identity -- Contextual identity -- Stylistic identity and literature -- 3. The structure of language -- Linguistic levels -- Typology and universals -- The statistical structure of language -- Grammar -- Semantics -- Dictionaries -- Names -- Discourse and text -- Pragmatics -- 4. The medium of language: speaking and listening -- The anatomy and physiology of speech -- The acoustics of speech -- The instrumental analysis of speech -- Speech reception -- Speech interaction with machines -- The sounds of speech -- The linguistic use of sound -- Suprasegmentals -- Sound symbolism -- 5. The medium of language: writing and reading -- Written and spoken language -- Graphic expression -- Graphology -- The process of reading and writing 210 -- 6. The medium of language: signing and seeing -- Sign language -- Sign language structure -- Types of sign language. 7. Child language acquisition -- Investigating children's language -- The first year -- Phonological development -- Grammatical development -- Semantic development -- Pragmatic development -- Language development in school -- 8. Language, brain and handicap -- Language and the brain -- Language handicap -- 9. The languages of the world -- How many languages? -- How many speakers? -- The origins of language -- Families of languages -- The Indo-European family -- Other families -- Languages isolates -- Language change -- Pidgins and creoles -- 10. Language in the world -- The language barrier -- Translating and interpreting -- Artificial languages -- World languages -- Multilingualism -- Language planning -- Foreign language learning and teaching -- Language for special purposes -- 11. Language and communication -- Language and other communication systems -- Linguistics ER -