Linguistics and Literature is the first book to offer an overview of how linguistic theory can be applied to the oral and written literatures of the world Linguistics and Literature is the first book to offer an overview of how linguistic ...

... 0631192433 Contents : Acknowledgements A Note on Texts 1 / Literary Linguistics and Verbal Art 2 / Meter and Linguistic Theory 3 / Kinds of Meter 4 / Issues in Metrical Theory : Metrical Constituents , and Music and Meter 5 / Para ...

The volume is extensively illustrated and the glossary of technical terms, exercises, and further reading suggestions that accompany each chapter make Writing Systems a valuable resource for students in linguistics and anthropology.

The last section of the book provides a detailed discussion of all aspects of speech with extensive examples from languages around the world.