Todd Loreto. An Introduction to Linguistics

London, New York: Routledge, 2015. — 608 p. — ISBN: 0415832578 Offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of perspectives, covering all the key areas of linguistics and drawing on interdisciplinary research in subjects such as anthropology, psychology and sociology. The...

Blackwell Publishing, 2000. — 843 p. — (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics). The Handbook of Linguistics is a general introductory volume designed to address this gap in knowledge about language. Presupposing no prior knowledge and its subdisciplines are about. The book was designed to be as nontechnical as possible, while at the same time serving as a repository for what is...

Penguin Group. New York, NY, USA. 2007. — 512 pages. Includes index. — ISBN: 158333291X Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's own words, "How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery, and sex-or, indeed, anything at all." Language is so fundamental to everyday life...

Oxford University Press Inc, 2010. — 1048 pages. This handbook compares the main analytic frameworks and methods of contemporary linguistics. It offers a unique overview of linguistic theory, revealing the common concerns of competing approaches. By showing their current and potential applications it provides the means by which linguists and others can judge what are the most...

Cambridge English, 2015. — 278 p. Grammar and Vocabulary reference and practice for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) from 2015 Cambridge Grammar and Vocabulary for Advanced provides complete coverage of the grammar and vocabulary needed for the revised exams, and develops listening skills at the same time. It provides students with practice of exam tasks from the...

Longman, 1997. — 776 p. — ISBN: 9780582246911. Contemporary Linguistics : an introduction is a comprehensive, fully up-to-date introduction to linguistics. The book covers not only how language is structured, but also how it functions both socially and culturally, and how it is acquired and processed by speakers. It will prepare students to go on to more advanced work and, at...