Language

Language PDF

Author: Virginia P. Clark

Publisher: Palgrave

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 736

ISBN-13: 9780333608944

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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 includes part introductions, head- notes for each selection, and selected bibliographies and projects for each part.

Language

Language PDF

Author: Virginia Clark

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Published: 2007-12-27

Total Pages: 912

ISBN-13: 9780312450182

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Language offers a broad selection of groundbreaking historical studies and up-to-the-minute research for introductory courses in linguistics. Classic readings have been retained and updated to provide an authoritative, timely survey of the essential issues of language study. New articles introduce areas of debate on language variation; issues of language, culture and gender; global varieties of English; and language extinction. This solid collection introduces students to the foundations of the field and offers extensive resources for further study.