Please Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced text.

"Contemporary Linguistics", now in its second UK edition, has been fully revised and updated to reflect the latest trends in scholarship.

An initiation into the intricacies of scientific linguistic analysis, "Contemporary Linguistics" covers not only how language is structured, but also how it functions both socially and culturally, and how it is acquired and processed by speakers. Interdisciplinary areas such as psycholinguistics, language acquisition and the growing field of computational linguistics are explored as well as the fundamentals of phonetics and phonology, syntax and semantics.