Designed for introductory students, this collection of key readings
in language and linguistics will take readers beyond their
introductory textbook and introduce them to the thoughts and
writings of many esteemed authorities. The reader includes seminal
papers, new or controversial pieces to stimulate discussion and
reports on applied work. Language in Use: is split into four parts
- 'Language and Interaction', 'Language Systems', 'Language and
Society' and 'Language and Mind' covers all the topics of language
study including conversation analysis, pragmatics, power and
politeness, semantics, grammar, phonetics, multilingualism, child
language acquisition and psycholinguistics has readings from
authorities including Pinker, Fairclough, Crystal, Le Page and
Tabouret-Keller, Hughes, Trudgill and Watt, Halliday, Sacks, Mills,
Obler and Gjerlow provides comprehensive editorial support for each
reading with introductions, activities or discussion points to
follow and further reading Is supported by a companion website,
offering extra resources for students including additional
activities, useful weblinks and advice from the authors Designed
for use as a companion to Introducing Language in Use (Routledge,
2005), but also highly usable as a stand-alone text, this Reader
will introduce readers to the wide world of linguistics and applied
linguistics.
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