ISBN 041520089X. Trade Paperback. Reading copy only, due to heavy cover and cornerwear, highlighting in yellow on a few pages of text. Otherwise, tight, sound copy. Second edition.

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Title: Language: The Basics Second Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1999
ISBN 10: 041520089X
ISBN 13: 9780415200899
Binding: Paperback
Edition: Later Edition
Condition: Fair

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Language: The Basics provides a concise introduction to the study of language. Written in an engaging and entertaining style, it encourages the reader to think about the way language works. New features include:

* a chapter on 'Language in Use' which introduces pragmatics, metaphor, speech and writing and discourse analysis
* a section on sign language
* a glossary of key terms
* an expanded further reading section
Language: the Basics provides an overview for students and anyone who's ever been accused of splitting an infinitive.

About the Author

R. L. Trask is Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sussex and author of A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics (1993), Language Change (1994) and A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology (1995) (all published by Routledge).

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