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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.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 2 reviews)

book by Blanca M. Ortiz (Los Angeles, CA)

5 Stars
May 09, 2009
Im very pleased with the book. It arrived as early as expected. It was as described very good condition. !!!

Language introductory readings: More to it than we know

4 Stars
February 04, 2002
This book does not focus on one topic, rather on many subjects within the wide category of language. It has eight topics. The first section of this book focuses on Language and Its Study, however, as the book goes on, it focuses more closely on how language is throughout the world. It keys in on specifics such as, why girls talk the way they do and why boys talk the way they do. Other areas of interest I found in this book were the process of sign language and how children learn the words they speak. I thought that talking about the roots of language would be quite uninteresting, so I chose this book because it applied the language to everyday activities and natural occurrences that can happen all around the world since we are such a diverse society. Overall, I would recommend this book because you are able to pick whatever section out of the book you want to read, not just obtaining the background information on our language but also how we use it in today's world. For a project I had to do in school, I focused on how children develop their words and sentence structures. I added information to my before knowledge of how children learned. In conclusion, I found that human language is extremely complicated and has many unique characteristics.

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