The book "The Study of Language, fifth edition" is a work thinked to knowing all about language from its origin to the key elements of language. It implies differents social status and cultural beliefs among other, to understand meaning language and communication purpose.
In this entry, you will have the opportunity to know a little about this edition in which you can see some chapters in the following Power Point presentations.
CHAPTER 1: The Origins of Language & CHAPTER 2: Animals and human language
CHAPTER 11: Discourse Analysis
This chapter explains what discourse is. It is what gives language meaning in texts and conversations and it provides us all their characteristics such as cohesion and coherence among other. The first one gives us connection between paragraph within text and the second makes sense of what we perceive.
CHAPTER 17: Language history and change
This chapter helps us to find out and understand all changes English Language has gone through. It involves the investigation of the features of older languages and the ways they developed into modern languages.
CHAPTER 18: Regional variation in language
This chapter is related to different variations that language has, but it is most notorious in the way it is spoken.
CHAPTER 19: Social variation in language
This chapter is related to language in social context. But it is especially focused on the variation in language use in terms of education and economic status. As a result languages varies according to upper and lower social status.Taking into account this aspect, Yule mentions the term "prestige" as a habitual element in which language can be used formal or informal in a particular situation.
Source: George Yule, 2014. "The Study of Language,Fifth Edition". Cambridge University, New York. MPG Printgroups Ltd., Cambridge.
The book "The Study of Language Fifth Edition" is an improved version of how language evolves through history. It explains the way it develops, it varies according to social status, and the different interpretation or meaning to the situation or context that is presented.
It is very interesting to know the development of language because it mains purpose is to have access to communication before a previous necessity. To achieve this motive, humans need to use others sources such as physical features, for instance, teeth, lips, mouth, laryx and pharyx. In comparison to animals, humans can reflect on their action.
Therefore, this characteristic can be observed in the ability to develop a language with a defined intention and also with different explications according to intonation, register - among others - in a specific place or context. It is important to mention that a person who obtained a good education has better fluency and a greater amount of vocabulary than a person who did not obtain it. This advantage or disadvantage, depending on the place people are positioned, evidences two different social status, low and high, that divide the society inevitably.
In addition, this volume provides us explanations and examples of how language changes depending on the social or educational level. But above all, it is interesting to find out how language varies in meaning or interpretation just because of context.
To conclude, this work helps us to understand the way language is constantly changing due to people needs. It varies between register, jargon, grammatical features -among others- and jointly they lead us the interpretation and the meaning in accordance with circumstances.
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