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Books for Linguistics Entrance Exam
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| Author: | Deborah Ruuskanen | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
General Linguistics
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| Summary: |
Regarding my recent request for help with a general book on
language/linguistics for use in a department entrance exam: Thanks and gratitude go to the following persons who took the time to reply and make thoughtful suggestions Mayrene Bentley bentley@nsuok.edu Claudia Bubel c.bubel@mx.uni-saarland.de Eleonora Deak dacsth-eastling@nt-tech.com.au Agnieszka Lazorczyk lazorczy@usc.edu G.R. Sampson geoffs@cogs.susx.ac.uk Thorsten Schr?ter thorsten.schroter@kau.se Stuart Stewart sstewart@selu.edu Larry Trask larryt@cogs.susx.ac.uk Hopefully each of the above has been thanked personally, and I've gotten everyone who replied into the above list. Thanks again. After considerable debate, it was decided in committee to use Aitchison, Jean (1999) Linguistics: An Introduction 2nd ed. as the book for the entrance exam. While not boring you with the debate, suffice it to say that in 2003 we will be using Trask, Larry (2000) Introducing Linguistics. Icon Books ISBN 1840461691 The book most often recommended was Yule, George (1996) The Study of Language, 2nd ed. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56851-x (pb.) followed in second place by Poole, Stuart C. (1999) An Introduction to Linguistics, Palgrave. (formerly Macmillan Press) ISBN: 0333692187 (pb.) Another book mentioned was Fromkin, Victoria & Rodman, Robert (1998) An Introduction to Language, 6th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt, Brace College Publishers The Yule and Poole books were both deemed too difficult for an absolute beginner, but I was sufficiently impressed by both of them that I have chosen them as the new books for the Introduction to Linguistics course, replacing in Autumn 2002 the books we are currently using, which are out of date. Thanks again for all your help. Sincerely, Deborah D.K. Ruuskanen Professor of English Linguistics University of Vaasa, Finland |
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| LL Issue: | 12.2547 | |
| Date Posted: | 12-Oct-2001 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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