Organized into the core subject areas of linguistics, this invaluable book enables readers to contextualize each particular definition and gain a wider understanding of each topic. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction to the subject it covers, followed by definitions of terms and concepts. Cross-referencing and a detailed subject index allow the book to be used as a quick reference guide, and it can also be used to explore larger topics, including the principal figures of linguistic criticism whose ideas are explained alongside the terms and concepts they use.
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Geoffrey Finch is Senior Lecturer in English at Anglia Polytechnic University.
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We are using an awful linguistics text for my graduate applied linguistics course: Linguistics for Non-Linguists: A Primer with Exercises (4th Edition) - see my review. Only everyone's online reviews of this linguistics handbook, Linguistics Terms and Concepts by Geoffrey Finch saved me.The author is British - so he really knows English - in a way I think we are just approaching in the states, as in, it's in his DNA. And can you imagine a linguistics book that is a soothing and poetic read? Well you have found it. Finch loves the language and instructs us in it so tenderly that I can hardly imagine what life would have been like without it. Buy this book! :)
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LINGUISTICS is the systematic study of language. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cardinal vowel system, linguistic terms and concepts, noun bar, constituency analysis, linguistic enquiry, semantic primes, theta theory, running speech, generative linguists, truth conditional semantics, generative grammarians, selection restrictions, associative meaning, native users, clever student, syntagmatic relations, prototype theory, paradigmatic relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Michael Halliday, Noam Chomsky, British English, Peter Trudgill, New York, Old English, William Labov New!
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cardinal vowel system, linguistic terms and concepts, noun bar, constituency analysis, linguistic enquiry, semantic primes, theta theory, running speech, generative linguists, truth conditional semantics, generative grammarians, selection restrictions, associative meaning, native users, clever student, syntagmatic relations, prototype theory, paradigmatic relations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Perennial Classics) by Steven Pinker on page 236, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sociolinguistics: A Reader (Modern Lingusitics) by Nikolas Coupland in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Dictionary of Stylistics, Second Edition by Katie Wales in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Principles of Pragmatics (Longman Linguistics Library) by Geoffrey Leech in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Dialects of England by Peter Trudgill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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