Table of Contents

• Introduction
• BEGINNING:
• 1. What does language study mean at A Level?
• 2. Text producers and receivers
• 3. Mode and genre
• 4. Language use and language users
• 5. Language level 1: Lexis and semantics
• 6. Language level 2: Grammar
• 7. Language level 3: Phonetics, phonology and prosodics
• 8. Language level 4: Graphology
• 9. Language level 5: Pragmatics
• 10. Language level 6: Discourse
• 11. Introduction to analysing texts
• 12. Becoming a language investigator
• DEVELOPING:
• 13. Textual variations and representations
• 13.1 Textual variations
• 13.2 Language analysis: methods and approaches
• 13.3 Language analysis: genre and mode
• 13.4 Language analysis: audience and purpose
• 13.5 Introduction to representations
• 13.6 Language and representations: people, social groups and gender
• 13.7 Language and representations: events, places and issues
• 13.8 Exploring similarities and differences between texts
• 13.9 Bringing it all together
• 14. Child language development
• 14.1 Learning to talk
• 14.1.1 The process of spoken acquisition
• 14.1.2 A historical overview of acquisition theory
• 14.1.3 Environmental factors
• 14.1.4 Pragmatics
• 14.1.5 Discourse
• 14.1.6 Lexis and semantics
• 14.1.7 Grammar
• 14.2 Learning to write
• 14.2.1 Early exposure to printed language
• 14.2.2 Learning to read
• 14.2.3 The process of writing development
• 14.2.4 Attitudes and theories about learning to write
• 14.2.5 Environmental factors
• 14.2.6 Handwriting and orthography
• 14.2.7 Lexical and grammatical development
• 14.3 Bringing it all together
• 15. Language diversity
• 15.1 Varieties and diversity – an overview
• 15.2 Geographical varieties of English
• 15.3 Grammatical variations
• 15.4 Phonological variations: our accent
• 15.5 Personal and social varieties of English
• 15.6 Bringing it all together
• 16. Language change
• 16.1 Studying language change
• 16.2 The origins of English
• 16.3 Lexical change
• 16.4 Semantic change
• 16.5 Orthography
• 16.6 Grammatical change
• 16.7 Standardisation
• 16.8 Why does change happen?
• 16.9 How does change spread?
• 16.10 Bringing it all together
• 17. Language in action: a language investigation
• 17.1 What is a language investigation?
• 17.2 Choosing an area to investigate
• 17.3 What approach could you take?
• 17.4 Data collection
• 17.5 Data selection
• 17.6 Writing your investigation
• 17.7 Bringing it all together
• 18. Original writing
• 18.1 The writing process
• 18.2 The style model
• 18.3 The power of persuasion
• 18.4 The power of storytelling
• 18.5 The power of information
• 18.6 The drafting process
• 18.7 Writing a commentary
• 18.8 Referencing your work
• 18.9 Bringing it all together
• ENRICHING:
• 19 Textual variations and representations
• 20 Language development
• 21 Language diversity
• 22 Language change
• 23 Language investigation
• 24 Original writing
• References
• Index
• Acknowledgements
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