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An Introduction to Language

by Kirk Hazen
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An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works – its sounds, words, structures, and phrases – all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture.

  • Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language, inviting students to consider what qualities of language comprise everyday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, or conversation
  • Helps shape our understanding of what language is, how it works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essential to who we are
  • Includes exercises within each chapter to help readers explore key concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of all human language
  • Examines linguistic variation and change to illustrate social nuances and language-in-use, drawing primarily on examples from English
  • Avoids linguistic jargon, focusing instead on a broader and more general approach to the study of language, and making it ideal for those coming to the subject for the first time
  • Supported by additional web resources – available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/hazen/introlanguage – including student study aids and testbank and notes for instructors
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    Series: Linguistics in the World Publisher: Wiley

    Kindle Book

    • Release date: June 24, 2014

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    • ISBN: 9781118559956
    • Release date: June 24, 2014

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    • ISBN: 9781118559956
    • File size: 9252 KB
    • Release date: June 24, 2014

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    Language Arts Nonfiction

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    English

    An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the nature of language, focusing on how language works – its sounds, words, structures, and phrases – all investigated through wide-ranging examples from Old English to contemporary pop culture.

  • Explores the idea of a scientific approach to language, inviting students to consider what qualities of language comprise everyday skills for us, be they sounds, words, phrases, or conversation
  • Helps shape our understanding of what language is, how it works, and why it is both elegantly complex and essential to who we are
  • Includes exercises within each chapter to help readers explore key concepts and directly observe the patterns that are part of all human language
  • Examines linguistic variation and change to illustrate social nuances and language-in-use, drawing primarily on examples from English
  • Avoids linguistic jargon, focusing instead on a broader and more general approach to the study of language, and making it ideal for those coming to the subject for the first time
  • Supported by additional web resources – available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/hazen/introlanguage – including student study aids and testbank and notes for instructors
    • Expand title description text
    Language Arts Nonfiction
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      Publisher:
      Wiley

      Kindle Book
      Release date: June 24, 2014

      OverDrive Read
      ISBN: 9781118559956
      Release date: June 24, 2014

      EPUB ebook
      ISBN: 9781118559956
      File size: 9252 KB
      Release date: June 24, 2014

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    • Formats
      Kindle Book
      OverDrive Read
      EPUB ebook
    • Languages
      English