Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics: An Introduction

Linguistics, An Introduction, 2nd Revised edition--------------------------------------------------Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centres for linguisticteaching and research, the second edition of this highly successfultextbook offers a unified approach to language, viewed from a rangeof perspectives essential for students' understanding of the subject.Using clear explanations throughout, the book is divided into threemain sections: sounds, words, and sentences. In each, the foundationalconcepts are introduced, along with their application to the fieldsof child language acquisition, psycholinguistics, language disorders,and sociolinguistics, giving the book a unique yet simple structurethat helps students to engage with the subject more easily than othertextbooks on the market. This edition includes a completely new sectionon sentence use, including an introduction and discussion of core areasof pragmatics and conversational analysis, new coverage of sociolinguistictopics, introducing communities of practice, a wealth of new exercisematerial and updated further reading.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Andrew Radford is Professor and Head of Departmentof Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex. Martin Atkinsonis Professor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the Universityof Essex. David Britain is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languageand Linguistics at the University of Essex. Harald Clahsen is Professorin the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University ofEssex. Andrew Spencer is Professor in the Department of Language andLinguistics at the University of Essex.