Linguistics: An Introduction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521849487)

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.

Author: Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, David Britain
ISBN-10: 0521849489
ISBN-13: 9780521849487
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2009
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.20d