Introductory Linguistics

Advantages: covers many basic linguistic theories, includes activities and exercises to aid learning and development, very descriptive
Disadvantages: small font, can be hard to follow at times due to the bland-ish/ to-the-point factual information

...take over the conversation, interruptions and what they mean, etc. This is one of the better chapters especially for non linguists as it is more easily applied and viewed in light of our own language experiences. Chapter 7 is a more detailed summary of the whole book in the sense that it looks at both spoken and written language and defines the approaches used to study them both based...

js2ht2andl 05.05.2006 09:33 · Read review
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Review of Describing Language, Graddol, Cheshire and Swann - David Graddol, Jenny Cheshire, Joan Swann

Mountain Language

Advantages: Clear and important political message
Disadvantages: Direct, dim, and disturbing

...and sergeant torture her and her companion with stupid questions and harass the latter sexually. We see in the second scene that the elderly woman was in the prison to visit her son. The woman tries to talk to her son with the mountain language she is used to, for she doesn't know the capital language, yet the officer starts jabbing her with a stick. Still, she manages to tell her son that his wife and three...

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Review of Mountain Language - Harold Pinter

Trask speaks my language!

Advantages: Interesting, engaging and informative
Disadvantages: Possibly slightly outdated now (but definitely still relevant)

...Language by R L Trask is more or less an absolute beginner?s guide to the study of linguistics. My university course included a couple of modules on language and power, and this book was a brilliant accompaniment to my studies. It was also a bit different to some of the other textbooks that I had to use in that it is so readable and genuinely interesting. The version that I have is the second...

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Review of Language - R.L. Trask