01760nam a2200193 a 4500 14249 14249 0470658967 (paperback) 9780470658963 (paperback) Hazen, Kirk. An Introduction to Language / 1st ed. [S.l.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. 456 p. ; Linguistics in the world. 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. Language and languages Linguistics http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470658967/chopaconline-20 BK 0 0 0 0 QUESTCL QUESTCL 2015-10-14 5572.15 1 53201 2025-08-27 2025-06-02 2015-10-14 BK