[PDF] An Introduction To Language The Essentials eBook

Author : Kirk Hazen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1118559959

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An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works – its sounds, words, structures, and phrases – all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture. Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language, inviting students to consider what qualities of language comprise everyday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, or conversation Helps shape our understanding of what language is, how it works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essential to who we are Includes exercises within each chapter to help readers explore key concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of all human language Examines linguistic variation and change to illustrate social nuances and language-in-use, drawing primarily on examples from English Avoids linguistic jargon, focusing instead on a broader and more general approach to the study of language, and making it ideal for those coming to the subject for the first time Supported by additional web resources – available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/hazen/introlanguage – including student study aids and testbank and notes for instructors

Author : Victoria Fromkin
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN :

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AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE is ideal for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction including education, languages, psychology, anthropology, teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), and linguistics. All chapters in this best-seller have been substantially revised to reflect recent discoveries and new understanding of linguistics and languages.

Author : Victoria Fromkin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 2021-07-27
Category :
ISBN : 9780357792353

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Whether you are studying education, languages, cognitive science, psychology, anthropology, English, or teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE, 11th Edition, offers the information you need in a clear and descriptive manner that assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics. This edition retains the blend of humor and broad coverage that have made the text a perennial best seller, while adding up-to-date information and new research that render each topic fresh, engaging, and current.

Author : Victoria Fromkin
Publisher : Thomson/Nelson
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 9780176406264

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An Introduction to Language, Third Canadian Edition, offers students an up-to-date Canadian perspective on the study of language. This text provides students with the basic tools that will help them advance in a variety of disciplines, including education, psychology, languages, anthropology, communications, computer science, and linguistics.Clearly written and often humorous, with numerous exercises that allow students to test their knowledge, this text will help students better understand one of the essential aspects of our human existence: our ability to use and manipulate language.

Author : Ralph Fasold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521847680

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This accessible textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.

Author : Jeremy J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,99 MB
Release : 2006-05-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134292430

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This is a completely revised and updated edition of a highly successful textbook. It provides a practical and highly accessible introduction to the early stages of the English language: Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English. Designed specifically as a handbook for students beginning the study of early English language, whether for linguistic or literary purposes, it presumes little or no prior knowledge of the history of English. Features of this second edition include: newly added Middle English and Early Modern English sample texts and accompanying notes a new section on historical methods web links and an updated annotated bibliography.

Author : Roger Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 2022-02-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1000573877

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It is widely recognized that language is humanity’s most distinctive and valuable faculty. In this work, originally published in 1974, Roger Fowler explains the character and absorbing interest of language. Designed as an introductory text for students and others concerned with human communication, the book is clearly and concisely written, yet it in no way oversimplifies its rich and complicated subject. The opening chapters set the scene by a discussion of the power of language in the social and psychological life of a man, while the main body of the book is an introduction to linguistics, the science of language study. Coverage is provided of the main topics in linguistic description – semantics, syntax, phonetics – as well as of the functions of language, its status in society and its relation to the individual. The reader is invited to participate in some advanced thinking within an up-to-date and consistent linguistic theory. Particular attention is given to the individual as language-learner, since the process of language acquisition illuminates most clearly the naturalness and the complexity of language. The author’s arguments are illustrated with hundreds of examples from English and other languages. Suggestions for further reading are included in the exposition, and the reader who follows the arguments and pursues the carefully arranged bibliographical recommendations will acquire a substantial insight into contemporary linguistics – the most important and advanced of the modern human sciences.