Buku ajar ini terdiri dari delapan bahasan yakni Language and linguistics; Phonetics and phonology; Morphology and syntax; Semantics and pragmatics; Literature; Poetry; How to analyze literary work
It is challenging to describe many communicative phenomena in daily conversation linguistically. Linguists investigate why we have language, how it functions, the limitations of linguistic variety, and how language evolves (Willemsen & Bøegh, 2019). Since the human language has various roles, functions, and qualities, humans can use language correctly—several forms of language, such as sound…
Language as the only means for human to communicate, since immemorial exist solely upon the principle of arbitrariness, which signifies the importance of unified agreement in a certain group of humans to pick up a particular signal or symbol to represent a certain action, stuff and expressing feelings.