Linguistics : An Introduction
Overview
Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centres for linguistic teaching and research, the second edition of this highly successful textbook offers a unified approach to language, viewed from a range of perspectives essential for students' understanding of the subject. Using clear explanations throughout, the book is divided into three main sections: sounds, words, and sentences. In each, the foundational concepts are introduced, along with their application to the fields of child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language disorders, and sociolinguistics, giving the book a unique yet simple structure that helps students to engage with the subject more easily than other textbooks on the market. This edition includes a completely new section on sentence use, including an introduction and discussion of core areas of pragmatics and conversational analysis; coverage of sociolinguistic topics, introducing communities of practice; a wealth of new exercise material and updated further reading.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780521849487
- ISBN-10: 0521849489
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: February 2009
- Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.9 x 1.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
- Page Count: 450
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