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 …

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This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended
particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the …

Understanding Language is the second edition of this introduction to linguistics aimed at all
students who are new to the subject. The book is comprehensive in its coverage of the key …

This volume presents, for the first time in English, a representative view of Gustave
Guillaume's thought. The texts, drawn mainly from Guillaume's manuscript notes for lectures …

A comprehensive overview of the development of language studies from the ancient Greeks
through modern theorists, this book focuses on determining what the enduring issues in …

If you are new to linguistics as a subject and beginning a course at undergraduate or sixth-
form level, How to Study Linguistics is the ideal introduction and companion to your studies …

" The first edition of this Handbook is built on surveys by well-known figures from around the
world and around the intellectual world, reflecting several different theoretical predilections …

This book offers introductory entries on 80 ideas that have shaped the study of language up
to the present day. Entries are written by experts in the fields of linguistics and the …

This compact and student-friendly text, now in its Third Edition, continues to cover in a single
volume the diverse aspects of Linguistics, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology …