Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages --in the case of bilinguals-- have already been acquired. Understanding Second Language Acquisition offers a wide-encompassing survey of this burgeoning field, its accumulated findings and proposed theories, its developed research paradigms, and its pending questions for the future. The book zooms in and out of universal, individual, and social forces, in each case evaluating the research findings that have been generated across diverse naturalistic and formal contexts for second language acquisition. It assumes no background in SLA and provides helpful chapter-by-chapter summaries and suggestions for further reading. Ideal as a textbook for students of applied linguistics, foreign language education, TESOL, and education, it is also recommended for students of linguistics, developmental psycholinguistics, psychology, and cognitive science. Supporting resources for tutors are available free at www.hodderplus.co.uk/linguistics (registration required).

《温州方言志》是郑张尚芳著作的，描写温州地区的方言，内容全面，新颖。
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目录
第一章绪论
第一节本市概况
第二节温州方言系属及源流
（一）温州方言的重要性
（二）温州话的通话范围及系属
（三）温州方言的发端在汉末东吴
（四）南宋时温州话已是与其他吴语相区别的方言
（五）温州方言特征及其源流分析
第三节温州方言文献及调查记录
（一）字书、韵书及笔记
（二）方言谣谚、谜语
（三）民间杂字及词曲
（四）方言拼音方案
（五）温州方言调查记录
第四节本书所用音标符号
（一）辅音
（二）元音
（三）声调符号
（四）本书其他常用符号
（五）记北京音所用音标与拼音字母对照表
第二章温州方言内部差异及近百年变化
第一节城郊差别
第二节新老差别
第三节百年前的更早记录及音系变化历程
（一）早期记录的分析
（二）声母系统的变化
（三）韵母系统的变化
（四）声调的变化
（五）常用虚词音变
第三章温州话的语音系统
第一节声母表
第二节韵母表
第三节声调表
第四节连调变化
第五节两种轻声变化
第六节文白异读及借音
第七节常见语流音变
第四章温州话的音韵特点
第一节语音体系方面的特点
第二节区分古音类方面的特点
第三节并混古音类方面的特色
第五章儿尾词及其变化
第一节儿尾的作用
（一）构词作用
（二）小称作用
（三）其他修辞作用
第二节儿尾词的构造
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第六章同音字汇
第七章词汇特点
第八章方言的语法变化
温州方言词汇表
参考文献

People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning. Bringing together the perspectives of linguistics and philosophy, Lakoff and Johnson offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind. And for this new edition, they supply an afterword both extending their arguments and offering a fascinating overview of the current state of thinking on the subject of the metaphor.

This popular and accessible introduction to phonetics has been fully updated for its third edition, and now includes an accompanying website with sound files, and expanded coverage of topics such as speech technology. Describes how languages use a variety of different sounds, many of them quite unlike any that occur in well-known languages Written by the late Peter Ladefoged, one of the world's leading phoneticians, with updates by renowned forensic linguist, Sandra Ferrari Disner Includes numerous revisions to the discussion of speech technology and additional updates throughout the book Explores the acoustic, articulatory, and perceptual components of speech, demonstrates speech synthesis, and explains how speech recognition systems work Will be supported by a forthcoming accompanying website featuring additional data and recordings of the sounds of a wide variety of languages, to reinforce learning and bring the descriptions to life

语言是人类真正的遗传密码。我们生活在一个语言编织而成的世界里，每时每刻都会受到我们自己听到、看到和使用的语言的影响，并会被无意中对语言所下的臆断所支配。语言既能让人走到一起，也能让人走向对立；既能促成善行，也能粉饰恶政；既能促进沟通，也能引起争讼。洞悉语言的本质，有助于我们更深刻地认识人性，避免让语言成为控制我们思想的工具，享受语言带给我们的愉悦，获得自由的心境，拥有美好的人生。

《你一生的故事》为 电影《降临》的原著小说，此外还收入《巴比伦塔》《领悟》《除以零》《七十二个字母 》《人类科学之演变》《地狱是上帝不在的地方》外，本书新增篇目《赏心悦目》。
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《你一生的故事》结集特德•姜早期的八篇作品：代表作《你一生的故事》、处女作《巴比伦塔》以及《领悟》、《除以零》、《七十二个字母 》、《人类科学之演变》、《地狱是上帝不在的地方》、《赏心悦目》——
一个语言学家学会了一门外星语言，彻底改变了她的世界观。过去、现在、未来，在她眼前同时展开。
为了离上帝更近，人类伐木烧砖，拉车砌塔，经过无数个世代的辛劳，终于建成一座巍峨耸立于天地之间的通天塔。
只要一小瓶药水，就能拥有超人智慧，这个诱惑无人能挡。可惜超人不止一个，荡气回肠的超人对决之后，领悟终极的智慧。
任何数字除以零，都不会得出一个有意义的结果。两个人的感情除以零，结果是什么？
在一个“名字驱动一切”的世界，命名师们玩转七十二个字母，寻找人类种族繁衍的密码。
当人类的所有科学研究仅仅局限在解读后人类的科研成果时，这种研究是否还有存在的必要？
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