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The Study of Language

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Designed for beginners, this best-selling textbook provides a thorough introduction to the study of language. It introduces the analysis of the key elements of language--sounds, words, structures and meanings, and provides a solid foundation in all of the essential topics. The third edition has beenContinue

Designed for beginners, this best-selling textbook provides a thorough introduction to the study of language. It introduces the analysis of the key elements of language--sounds, words, structures and meanings, and provides a solid foundation in all of the essential topics. The third edition has been extensively revised to include new sections on important contemporary issues in language study, including language and culture, African American English, sign language, and slang. A comprehensive glossary provides useful explanations of technical terms, and each chapter contains a range of new study questions and research tasks, with suggested answers.

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  • Learning to speak? It's child's play

    New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind Noam Chomsky Cambridge UP £12.95, pp230 Buy it at BOL Professor Noam Chomsky is internationally renowned on two grounds - he is a tireless political publicist and polemicist, and the most influential the ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • From Adam to Aarsleff

    The modest title of Hans Aarsleff’s book From Locke to Saussure conceals, among other things, the fact that it goes a long way beyond Saussure. Its implications reach right down to linguistic controversies which continue unabated at the present day. ... (read full critics)

    lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

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  • Interesting and easy to read

    This is a good book for you to start to learn more about language, starting from the origins of language, morphology, syntax, semantics, to some other applied areas of language study like first language acquistion, sign language and the speech recognition systems.

    What I like most from the boo ... (continue)

    This is a good book for you to start to learn more about language, starting from the origins of language, morphology, syntax, semantics, to some other applied areas of language study like first language acquistion, sign language and the speech recognition systems.

    What I like most from the book are those short stories or conversations at the beginning of each chapter related to the corresponding topic.

    That's what I found at the beginning of chapter 15, Language and the brain :P

    Male (answering phone): Hello, Antoine's Hair Studio
    Female: I'd like to make an appointment with Michael for next week Thursday
    Male: Wolud that be for a haircut?
    Female: A haircut and a blow job
    Male: (silence)
    Female: Oh, I mean a blow dry, a haircut and a blow dry

    Maryann Overstreet (1995)

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 284 Pages
  • Edition: 3
  • ISBN-10: 0521543207
  • ISBN-13: 9780521543200
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Pub date: Nov 28, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1097 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
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