“A genuinely introductory linguistics text, well suited for undergraduates who have little priorĮxperience thinking descriptively about language. He is the author of a number of books, including DiscourseĪnalysis (with Gillian Brown, 1983) and Pragmatics (1996). George Yule has taught Linguistics at the Universities of Edinburgh, Hawai’i, Louisiana This is the most fundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the Guide offers students further resources when working on the tasks, while encouraging livelyĪnd proactive learning. Involving data analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. To increase studentĮngagement with the text, Yule has also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty Messaging, kinship terms and more than twenty new word etymologies. Sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the key properties of language, text This fourth edition has been revised and updated with twenty new In short, bite-sized sections, introducing the major concepts in language study – from howĬhildren learn language to why men and women speak differently, through all the keyĮlements of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the
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