The seeds of speech : language origin and evolution /

• Aitchison, Jean.

• Historical linguistics
• Language and languages -- Origin
• Linguistic change

• Cambridge University Press,

• Canto

• 0521785715

• Includes index.
• Bibliography: p.245-268.
• Originally published: 1996.

• Syntax
• Syntactic theory selected readings
• Pidgins and creoles
• functional analysis of English a Hallidayan approach
• Introducing English grammar
• Aspects of the theory of syntax
• Introducing metaphor
• English syntax an introduction
• History of English
• Analysing sentences an introduction to English syntax
• dialects of England
• Bilingualism
• Pragmatics
• Texts and practices readings in critical discourse analysis
• English language a historical introduction
• Thinking about language theories of English
• language of metaphors
• Language change progress or decay
• history of the English language a source book
• Language and world creation in poems and other texts
• introduction to conversation analysis
• Persuading people an introduction to rhetoric
• introduction to sociolinguistics
• Metaphor a practical introduction
• Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism
• Metaphor and thought
• Dialects of English studies in grammatical variation
• More than cool reason a field guide to poetic metaphor
• Metaphors we live by
• Language in society an introduction to sociolinguistics
• Understanding pragmatics
• Child language
• Dialects
• handbook of child language
• Meaning in English an introduction to language study
• Telephone conversation
• Talking difference on gender and language
• Pragmatics an introduction
• language of humour
• Everyday conversation
• Conversation analysis the study of talk in interaction
• Sociolinguistics a resource book for students
• Meaning in interaction an introduction to pragmatics
• Principles of pragmatics
• Contemporary linguistics an introduction
• Projects in linguistics a practical guide to researching language
• Exploring the language of poems plays and prose
• Women men and language a sociolinguistic account of gender differences in language
• Pragmatics
• language of jokes analyzing verbal play
• Language in the news discourse and ideology in the press
• Language and power
• Language ideology and point of view