Linguistics

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
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 447
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.80w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521614788

About the Author
Radford, Andrew: - Andrew Radford is Professor and Head of Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.Atkinson, Martin: - Martin Atkinson is Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.Britain, David: - David Britain is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.
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