Product Description
This revised and updated edition incorporates many changes that reflect developments in language study over the past decade, including a new chapter on pragmatics, and an expansion of the chapter on semantics. There are additional sections on speech recognition systems, sign languages, women's and men's language, input in language learning, and several other topics. The Study Questions and Discussion Topics following each chapter have also been thoroughly revised, with the addition of more than 30 new tasks for students; and the Further Reading sections have been revised, updated and expanded. The new edition also has many more illustrations, examples, and quotes from a wide range of commentators, from Groucho Marx to Gary Larson. The presentation retains the clear and lively style which made the first edition a hugely popular introduction to the study of language.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 16 reviews)

Great Book. Fast Shipping

This book is great. Very informative and helpful. Very good quality when shipped. Shipping was fast. Great overall.
September 29, 2008

Great book

I feel that this a great book. One thing thats great is that the chapters are short enough to get through, especially for those that use the book for college.
September 11, 2007

Best choice for an introduction

Probably the best introduction into the vast field of linguistics. George Yule covers all parts of language studies; and his book is highly readable (actually entertaining) to boot. Highly recommended for undergraduate classes or as an introductory book in general.
April 12, 2007

a well-written textbook

This book makes a very good introductory to linguistics. It is easy to read. The concepts are clearly explained.
January 10, 2007

Not worth its weight in sand

From a student who has studied linguistics in the past, George Yule's book is almost a complete waste of time. He brings up interesting points, describes them, and drops them just as quickly without making any sort of progress. The book has precious few examples of the concepts he is discussing, and his discussion of the concepts themselves is muddy and incomplete. For a much clearer way to learn lingustics, check out Edward Finnegan's "Language: Its Strucuture and Use". There are many other books out there that do a much better job of presenting the theories in linguistics.
September 29, 2005

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