This new edition introduction to spoken and written English is provides a wide range of written texts and transcriptions of speech for commentary and analysis. There are further practical activities and new sections on areas such as 'politically correct' usage.
Buku ini secara ringkas menyampaikan tinjauan karya menarik di bidang inti linguistik, termasuk fonetik, sintaksis, semantik, interaksi bahasa , variasi bahasa, perubahan bahasa, dan makna tulisan. Glosarium yang bermanfaat, serta saran terperinci untuk bacaan lebih lanjut, menjadikan ini titik awal yang ideal bagi siapa saja yang ingin belajar tentang studi bahasa.
This book provides a non-technical introduction to the study of language by focusing on questions such as: - Where does language come from? - Why don't we all talk the same? - Who needs grammar?