An Introduction to Language (Paperback)

Kirk Hazen

ISBN 10: 0470658967 / ISBN 13: 9780470658963

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Hoboken, 2014

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Paperback. An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works its sounds, words, structures, and phrases all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture. Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language, inviting students to consider what qualities of language comprise everyday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, or conversationHelps shape our understanding of what language is, how it works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essential to who we areIncludes exercises within each chapter to help readers explore key concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of all human languageExamines linguistic variation and change to illustrate social nuances and language-in-use, drawing primarily on examples from EnglishAvoids linguistic jargon, focusing instead on a broader and more general approach to the study of language, and making it ideal for those coming to the subject for the first timeSupported by additional web resources available upon publication at including student study aids and testbank and notes for instructors An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works its sounds, words, structures, and phrases all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Introduction to Language (Paperback)
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Hoboken
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470658967
• ISBN 13: 9780470658963
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works – its sounds, words, structures, and phrases – all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture.

• Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language, inviting students to consider what qualities of language comprise everyday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, or conversation
• Helps shape our understanding of what language is, how it works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essential to who we are
• Includes exercises within each chapter to help readers explore key concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of all human language
• Examines linguistic variation and change to illustrate social nuances and language-in-use, drawing primarily on examples from English
• Avoids linguistic jargon, focusing instead on a broader and more general approach to the study of language, and making it ideal for those coming to the subject for the first time
• Supported by additional web resources – available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/hazen/introlanguage – including student study aids and testbank and notes for instructors

About the Author

Kirk Hazen is Professor of Linguistics at West Virginia University. He is co-editor of Research Methods in Sociolinguistics (with Janet Holmes, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).