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Linguistics
Written by a team based at one of the world’s leading centres for linguistic
teaching and research, the second edition of this highly essful textbook
offers a unified approach to language, viewed from a range of perspectives
essential for students’ understanding of the subject. A language is -
plex structure represented in the minds of its speakers, and this textbook
provides the tools necessary for understanding this structure. Using clear
explanations throughout, the book is divided into three main parts: sounds,
words and sentences. In each, the foundational concepts are introduced,
along with their application to the fields of child language acquisition,
psycholinguistics, language disorders and sociolinguistics, giving the book
a unique yet simple structure that helps students to engage with the subject
more easily than other textbooks on the market. This edition includes a
completely new section on sentence use, including an introduction and
discussion of core areas of pragmatics and conversational analysis; new
coverage of sociolinguistic topics, munities of practice; a
new subsection introducing the student to Optimality Theory; a wealth of
new exercise material and updated further reading.
andrew radford, martin atkinson, david britain, harald
clahsen and andrew spencer all teach in the Department of Language
and Linguistics at the University of Essex.
Linguistics
An Introduction
SECOND EDITION
ANDREW RADFORD
MARTIN ATKINSON
DAVID BRITAIN
HARALD CLAHSEN
and
ANDREW SPENCER
University of Essex
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo
Cambridge University Press
The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK
Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York
Information on this title: 0521849487
© Andrew Radford, Martin Atkinson, David Britain, Harald Clahsen and Andrew
Spencer 2009
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