Saturday 9 December 2017

Review of book : Introducing English Linguistics

INTRODUCING ENGLISH LINGUISTICS - Charles F. Meyer

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The title of this book is “Introducing English Linguistics“ written by Charles F. Meyer.
In this book, there are seven chapters and 259 pages.
1.      The Study of Language.
The first chapter tells about introduction about Linguistics, especially about language .
-          Introduction : tells about the contents of the book, and it explains about what is language.
-          Language as part of a semiotic system : language for a semiotician is a semiotic system, not for everyone. But then again, for a semiotician everything that is a system is a semiotic system, including language.
-          The modes of language
-          Studying linguistics structure : about how to make a sentence or paragraph with the correct structure (grammar). Explains about : 1) phonetics/phonology – the smallest unit in language, the phoneme. 2) morphology – the smallest unit of meaning in language. 3) syntax – the largest level of structure is clause. 4) semantics – meaning of words or sentence.
2.      The development of English
-          This chapter explains about the development of English language, language changes time by time, typological classifications of languages, genetic classifications of languages.

3.      The social context of English
-          Explains about the differences of grammatical and pragmatic, sentence and utterance, speech act theory, the cooperative principle, politeness, and speaker variables. In this chapter we will know how to speak to others correctly.

4.      The structure of English texts
-          Explains about unity of structure, unit of texture, and spoken and written registers.

5.      English Syntax
-          Formal and additional definitions, the linear and hierarchial structuring of constituents, word classes and phrases.
In my opinion, this chapter s one the most difficult chapter. We will find some figure which is confusing.
6.      English wors : Structure and meaning
-          Lexical semantics, deixis, and morpheme.

7.      The sounds of English
-          Speech segments, suprasegmentals.


Personally, this book is very difficult to be understood, there some (I thinks “so many”) words and materials that are really confusing.  


Eka Rahmasari
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