الكتاب يحتوي على الموضوعات التالية :
1. The origins of language
2. The development of writing
3. The properties of language
4. Animals and human language
5. The sounds of langauge
6. The sound patterns of language
7. Words and word-formation processess
8. Morphology
9. Phrases and sentences: grammar
10. Syntax
11. Semantics
12. Pragmatics
13. Discourse analsis
14. Language and machine
15. Language and the brain
16. First language acquisition
17. Second langauge acquisition / learning
18. Sign language
19. Language history and chage
20. Language verieties
21. Language, seciety and culture
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