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Part I. Popular Ideas about Language: 1. The prescriptive tradition; 2.The equality of languages; 3. The magic of language; 4. The functions oflanguage; 5. Language and thought; Part II. Language and Identity: 6.Physical identity; 7. Psychological identity; 8. Geographical identity; 8.Ethnic and national identity; 10. Social identity; 11. Contextual identity;12. Stylistic identity and literature; Part III. The Structure of Language:13. Linguistic levels; 14. Typology and universals; 15. The statisticalstructure of language; 16. Grammar; 17. Semantics; 18. Dictionaries; 19.Names; 20. Discourses and text; 21. Pragmatics; Part IV. The Medium ofLanguage: Speaking and Listening: 22. The anatomy and physiology of speech;23. The acoustics of speech; 24. The instrumental; 25. Speech reception; 26.Speech interaction with machines; 27. The sounds of speech; 28. Thelinguistic use of sound; 29. Suprasegmentals; 30. Sound symbolism; Part V.The Medium of Language: Writing and Reading: 31. Written and spoken language;32. Graphic expression; 33. Graphology; 34. The process of reading andwriting; Part VI. The Medium of Language: Signing and Seeing: 35. Signlanguage; 36. Sign language structure; 37. Types of sign language; Part VII.Child Language Acquisition: 38. Investigating children's language; 39. Thefirst year; 40. Phonological development; 41. Grammatical development; 42.Semantic development; 43. Pragmatic development; 44. Language development inschool; Part VIII. Language, Brain and Handicap: 45. Language and the brain;46. Language handicap; Part IX. The Languages of the World: 47. How manylanguages?; 48. How many speakers?; 49. The origins of language; 50. Familiesof languages; 51. The Indo-European family; 52. Other families; 53. Languageisolates; 54. Language change; 55. Pidgins and creoles; Part X. Language inthe World: 56. The language barrier; 57. Translating and interpreting; 58.Artificial languages; 59. World languages; 60. Multilingualism; 61. Languageplanning; 62. Foreign language learning and teaching; 63. Language forspecial purposes; Part XI. Language and Communication: 64. Language and othercommunication systems; 65. Linguistics; Appendices.