内容简介
Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centresfor linguistic teaching and research, the 2009 second edition ofthis highly successful textbook offers a unified approach tolanguage, viewed from a range of perspectives essential forstudents' understanding of the subject. Using clear explanationsthroughout, the book is divided into three main sections: sounds,words, and sentences. In each, the foundational concepts areintroduced, along with their application to the fields of childlanguage acquisition, psycholinguistics, language disorders, andsociolinguistics, giving the book a unique yet simple structurethat helps students to engage with the subject more easily thanother textbooks on the market. This edition includes a completelynew section on sentence use, including an introduction anddiscussion of core areas of pragmatics and conversational analysis;coverage of sociolinguistic topics, introducing communities ofpractice; a wealth of new exercise material and updated furtherreading.
作者简介
Andrew Radford is Professor and Head of Department of Language andLinguistics at the University of Essex. Martin Atkinson isProfessor in the Department of Language and Linguistics at theUniversity of Essex. David Britain is Senior Lecturer in theDepartment of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.Harald Clahsen is Professor in the Department of Language andLinguistics at the University of Essex. Andrew Spencer is Professorin the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University ofEssex.
