Chapter One: Language Around Us
Chapter Two: Grammar in English
Chapter Three: Sound and Writing Systems in English
Chapter Four: Meaning and Vocabulary in English
Chapter Five: Language Use in Context
Chapter Six: How One Learns a Language
Chapter Seven: What Makes a Text a Text
Appendix A: Grammar in Spontaneous Speech
Appendix B: Language Is Sanctioned by Use
Chapter Eight: "Doing Linguistics"
Annotated Bibliography