LINGUIST List 21.2317

Sat May 22 2010

Books: General Linguistics: Yule

Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org>

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        1.    Daniel Davies, The Study of Language: Yule

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Message 1: The Study of Language: Yule
Date: 17-May-2010
From: Daniel Davies <ddaviescambridge.org>
Subject: The Study of Language: Yule
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Title: The Study of Language Published: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://us.cambridge.org

Author: George Yule Electronic: ISBN: 9780511686320 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 24.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9780521765275 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 50.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521749220 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 17.95
Abstract:

Note: This is a new version of a previously announced book.

This best-selling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendlyintroduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge in thesubject, Yule presents information in short, bite-sized sections,introducing the major concepts in language study - from how children learnlanguage to why men and women speak differently, through all the keyelements of language. This fourth edition has been revised and updated withtwenty new sections, covering new accounts of language origins, the keyproperties of language, text messaging, kinship terms and more than twentynew word etymologies. To increase student engagement with the text, Yulehas also included more than fifty new tasks, including thirty involvingdata analysis, enabling students to apply what they have learned. Theonline study guide offers students further resources when working on thetasks, while encouraging lively and proactive learning. This is the mostfundamental and easy-to-use introduction to the study of language.

Book TOC

1. The origins of language;2. Animals and human language;3. The development of writing;4. The sounds of language;5. The sound patterns of language;6. Words and word-formation processes;7. Morphology;8. Phrases and sentences: grammar;9. Syntax;10. Semantics;11. Pragmatics;12. Discourse analysis;13. Language and the brain;14. First language acquisition;15. Second language acquisition/learning;16. Gestures and sign languages;17. Language history and change;18. Language and regional variation;19. Language and social variation;20. Language and culture.


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Written In: English (eng )

See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=48460

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	-------------------------- Major Supporters --------------------------
	Brill	http://www.brill.nl
	Cambridge Scholars Publishing	http://www.c-s-p.org
	Cambridge University Press	http://us.cambridge.org
	Cascadilla Press	http://www.cascadilla.com/
	Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd	http://www.continuumbooks.com
	De Gruyter Mouton	http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	Edinburgh University Press	http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/
	Elsevier Ltd	http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics
	Emerald Group Publishing Limited	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/
	European Language Resources Association - ELRA	http://www.elra.info.
	Georgetown University Press	http://www.press.georgetown.edu
	John Benjamins	http://www.benjamins.com/
	Lincom GmbH	http://www.lincom.eu
	MIT Press	http://mitpress.mit.edu/
	Multilingual Matters	http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG	http://www.narr.de/
	Oxford University Press	http://www.oup.com/us
	Palgrave Macmillan	http://www.palgrave.com
	Peter Lang AG	http://www.peterlang.com
	Rodopi	http://www.rodopi.nl/
	Routledge (Taylor and Francis)	http://www.routledge.com/
	Springer	http://www.springer.com
	University of Toronto Press	http://www.utpjournals.com/
	Wiley-Blackwell	http://www.wiley.com
	---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ----------------------
	Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics	http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm
	Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass	http://glsa.hypermart.net/
	International Pragmatics Assoc.	http://www.ipra.be
	Langues et Linguistique	http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/
	Linguistic Association of Finland	http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/
	Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT	http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	Pacific Linguistics	http://pacling.anu.edu.au/
	SIL International	http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp
	St. Jerome Publishing Ltd	http://www.stjerome.co.uk
	Utrecht institute of Linguistics	http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/

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