Understanding Language
Study Skills for Linguistics
2nd Edition
By Jeanette Sakel
July 27, 2026
Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics. Covering all the core skills that students of linguistics will require during the early part of their degree, this book gives the reader a basic understanding of the field, as well as ...
Understanding Syntax
6th Edition
By Maggie Tallerman
April 07, 2025
Assuming no prior grammatical knowledge, Understanding Syntax explains and illustrates the major concepts, categories and terminology involved in the study of cross-linguistic syntax. Taking a largely theory-neutral and descriptive viewpoint throughout, this book: introduces syntactic typology, ...
Understanding Phonology
5th Edition
By Carlos Gussenhoven, Haike Jacobs
January 31, 2025
Understanding Phonology, Fifth Edition, provides a clear, accessible and broad introduction to phonology. Introducing the basic concepts, it provides a comprehensive account of phonological topics like segmental contrasts, syllables and moras, quantity, tone and intonation, word stress, and ...
Understanding Signed Languages
1st Edition
By Erin Wilkinson, Jill P. Morford
January 31, 2024
Understanding Signed Languages provides a broad and accessible introduction to the science of language, with evidence drawn from signed languages around the world. Readers will learn about language through a unique set of signed language studies that will surprise them with the diversity of ways ...
Understanding Language Contact
1st Edition
By Evangelia Adamou, Barbara E. Bullock, Almeida Jacqueline Toribio
August 29, 2023
Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of language contact, this book takes the novel approach of considering these outcomes as an endpoint of bilingualism and ...
Understanding Discourse Analysis
1st Edition
By Bernadette Vine
March 10, 2023
Understanding Discourse Analysis provides students with an accessible and well-illustrated introduction to discourse analysis. Explaining the main terminology and frameworks and presenting key findings of discourse studies, this book: Explores the development of discourse analysis Covers four key ...
Understanding Corpus Linguistics
1st Edition
By Danielle Barth, Stefan Schnell
November 19, 2021
This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous linguistic diversity represented by approximately 7,000 human languages and broadening the scope of current ...
Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork
1st Edition
By Felicity Meakins, Jennifer Green, Myfany Turpin
March 27, 2018
Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic data in an ethical and responsible manner, the key features include: A focus on fieldwork in countries and ...
Understanding Language Change
1st Edition
By Kate Burridge, Alexander Bergs
November 04, 2016
The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather ...
Study Skills for Linguistics
1st Edition
By Jeanette Sakel
March 19, 2015
Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics. Covering all the core skills that students of linguistics will require during the early part of their degree, this book gives the reader a basic understanding of the field, as well as ...
Understanding Pragmatics
1st Edition
By Gunter Senft
February 07, 2014
Understanding Pragmatics takes an interdisciplinary approach to provide an accessible introduction to linguistic pragmatics. This book discusses how the meaning of utterances can only be understood in relation to overall cultural, social and interpersonal contexts, as well as to culture specific ...
Understanding Child Language Acquisition
1st Edition
By Caroline Rowland
October 10, 2013
Taking an accessible and cross-linguistic approach, Understanding Child Language Acquisition introduces readers to the most important research on child language acquisition over the last fifty years, as well as to some of the most influential theories in the field. Rather than just describing what ...