Language: Introductory Readings - Softcover

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9780333608944: Language: Introductory Readings

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ISBN 10: 0333608941 ISBN 13: 9780333608944

Publisher: Palgrave HE UK, 1994

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Language: Introductory Readings offers forty-four thematically arranged readings on crucial topics in linguistics. This new edition offers fourteen new selections and five commissioned selections have been specially updated. Substantial apparatus incudes part introductions, head- notes for each selection, and selected bibliographies and projects for each part. The book provides a broad overview for all students of linguistics and reflects recent ideas and developments in the field.

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About the Author

VIRGINIA CLARK was a professor of English at the University of Vermont and served as chair of the English department. With Paul Eschholz and Alfred Rosa, she is the author of Language Awareness, Ninth Edition.

ALFRED ROSA and PAUL ESCHHOLZ are professors emeriti of English at the University of Vermont. They have directed statewide writing programs and conducted numerous workshops throughout the country on writing and the teaching of writing. Rosa and Eschholz have collaborated
on a number of best-selling texts for Bedford/St. Martin's, including Subject and Strategy, Eleventh Edition (2008); Models for Writers, Ninth Edition (2007); and Outlooks and Insights: A Reader for College Writers, Fourth Edition (1995).

BETH LEE SIMON is Professor of Linguistics and English at Indiana University Purdue University. Her scholarly work includes the recent volume, Language Variation and Change in the American Midland: A New Look at Heartland English. She was an editor of the five-volume Dictionary of American Regional English (Harvard/Belnap Press). She is also widely published in poetry, fiction and memoir.

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"Language can acquaint the non-specialist with a wide array of issues involved in the study of language. The readings are generally accessible without prior study of linguistics."

-- Matthew Weltig, University of Nevada at Reno

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