A Critical Introduction to Phonetics (Bloomsbury Critical Introductions to Linguistics) - Hardcover

Lodge, Ken

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826488730 ISBN 13: 9780826488732

Publisher: Continuum, 2009

Synopsis

A Critical Introduction to Phonetics  presents core areas of the subject from refreshing new perspectives. It takes a new stance on the presentation of basic phonetic skills for students of linguistics. Using examples drawn from a wide-range of languages Ken Lodge introduces the key aspects of phonetics, examining the difference between speech and writing, the physiology of speech production, basic and detailed articulation, and acoustic phonetics.
The book contains a practical guide to transcriptions from sound recordings, and a section on applications of phonetics to fields of study such as language variation and accent. A Critical Introduction to Phonetics provides comprehensive coverage of all the key areas of the subject, and contains chapter summaries to help the reader navigate the text. Critical thinking is prompted throughout, and this will therefore be essential reading for students on introductory phonetics courses both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

About this title

About the Author:

Andreas Musolff is Professor of Intercultural Communication at the University of East Anglia, UK. His monographs include Metaphor, Nation and the Holocaust (2010) and Metaphor and Political Discourse (2004) and War against the Public: The Language of Terrorism (1996, in German); he has co-edited further volumes on political discourse in Europe as well as articles and book chapters on metaphor theory.

Review:

"Lodge uses his practical classroom experience to provide safe guidance, and his theoretical perspective to provide a phonetically more accurate non-segmental foundation to phonetics. I particularly like the extensive introductions to continuous speech, prosody, resonance and segmentation, which will be of interest to phonologists and more advanced students of phonetics as well as beginners" - Professor James M. Scobbie, Speech Science Research Centre, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK.

'An eye-opener for those who have not considered the medium and long-term effects produced by articulators of different sizes and shapes moving at different speeds and with different constraints while producing a so-called string of speech sounds' The Journal of International Phonetic Association, 2010

'An eye-opener for those who have not considered the medium and long-term effects produced by articulators of different sizes and shapes moving at different speeds and with different constraints while producing a so-called string of speech sounds’ The Journal of International Phonetic Association, 2010

About this edition

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0826488730
• ISBN 13: 9780826488732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264