The wonders of language or how to make noises and influence people - Roberts, Ian G. (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Introduction -- 1. How to make noises-phonetics -- 2. How to organise noises-phonology -- 3. How to build a word-morphology -- 4. How to say absolutely anything you want to-syntax -- 5. How to build a world-semantics -- 6. How to influence people-pragmatics -- 7. How to find lost languages-historical linguistics -- 8. How to influence the right people-sociolinguistics -- 9. How to lose a language and how to learn a language-psycholinguistics -- 10. How to build a language-language typology and universals.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Language awareness; Speech acts (Linguistics).; Applied linguistics; Language acquisition; Linguistics -- Study and teaching