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Language: Its Structure and Use 5th Edition

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LANGUAGE: ITS STRUCTURE AND USE explains core concepts in an interactive style that you can understand no matter what your major. With features like "What Do You Think?" and "Try It Yourself," you'll understand what you're experiencing on campus and in the classroom from a linguistics perspective. The expanded study sections and the available workbook provide you with the tools you'll need for effective test prep.

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1413030556
ISBN-13

978-1413030556
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5th
Publisher

Thomson Wadsworth
Publication date

April 24, 2007
Language

English
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7.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches
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574 pages
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"Finegan routinely uses other languages as well as English to illustrate virtually every important topic. This is probably the single strongest feature of the book. In addition, the end of chapter exercises and the separate workbook are very good and the range of topics covered is excellent. And Finegan's sympathy to the performative aspects of language use (language as a communication system that utilizes broader cultural knowledge and contextual cues as well as linguistic competence) is a breath of fresh air."

"Throughout the text, Finegan consistently exhibits a clear, lively writing style that engages the students without sounding condescending. With only a couple of exceptions the chapters beyond the core topics of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax are gems as stand-alone essays on the nature of language. I truly regret that I don't have more time in a semester to include more of them… The exercises at the ends of the chapters are excellent."

About the Author

Edward Finegan (MA and PhD, Ohio University) specializes in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, and the history and structure of the English language. He served as chair of the Department of Linguistics at USC and currently serves as director of USC's Center for Excellence in Teaching. President of the International Association of Forensic Linguists, Finegan is editor of DICTIONARIES: THE JOURNAL OF THE DICTIONARY SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA and has been Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Linguistics, Harvard University; Visiting Professor at University of Zurich; and Visiting Scholar at University of Helsinki. He also served as Director of American Language Institute/National Iranian Radio and Television [1975-1976 in peaceful times]. He is the recipient of many teaching awards and honors.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomson Wadsworth; 5th edition (April 24, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 574 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1413030556
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1413030556
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.98 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.25 x 0.75 x 9 inches

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It has much to be desired

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 30, 2011

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I am getting my my master's degree in Linguistics, and my professor has chosen to use this book for our Introduction to Linguistics course. Finegan writes this book as if he's writing it for professional linguists who need their memories refreshed. Instead of simply putting in the book what students need: clear-cut, unambigous, non-circular definitions, he quickly glosses over terms then gives very long, extensive examples without even having defined the term. For example, pragmatics is defined as "the branch of linguistics that studies information structure" (p. 250). His definitions do not help the learner fully understand the term, he simply doesn't define it.

Majority of the examples are given in foreign languages. This is not helpful if you have never studied any of them, and for the ones you have studied, it doesn't make things easier. The exercises he has at the end of each chapter are ambiguous. For example, exercise 8.1a, pp. 272: "Identify the noun phrase that is the topic in sentences 2, 3, and 4." This question can go two ways- identify one noun phrase that is the topic of each of those sentences as a whole or identify three separate noun phrases. Finegan should take more time in the structure of defining the terms in his next edition and condense some of the long, unnecessary examples, as well as get on board with standards (the phonetic charts he uses are out of date).

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different status

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 26, 2010

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The reason I purchased this book at Amazon rather than at university bookstores is that I trusted the amazon's explanation on the site. The description said that the status of this used book is almost the new one. When I got this book at home, however, I am very disappointed 'cause not only the cover but also almost 1/4 pages were underlined, taken notes, and highlighted in various colors. Although I really wanted to return this book, I can't as the class began on that day. Now I can't trust the description in Amazon site as it is.

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Bluefin

Poorly worded and very dull

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 28, 2013

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It seems that this author chose to use fancy wording and complex examples when something simpler would have been fine. I often found myself rereading paragraphs and even that didn't help. I got an A in my linguistics class thanks to my professor's lectures and because I kept rereading parts that were worded poorly (lots of those). If this book is your only resource then you'd better get to the lectures because you'll be in deep trouble otherwise.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 13, 2013

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Is easy to read, Helpful for my class. I like the size and weight for carring to class. I would not have read if not needed for class.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 2, 2016

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Great price and resource

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 28, 2015

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As described with quick delivery!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2009

I was not aware that this was the international version of the book, and even though it is the same thing, it would have been nice if Amazon did not bunch all of them together.

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