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Language: Its Structure and Use
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Product Description
LANGUAGE: ITS STRUCTURE AND USE explains core concepts in an interactive style that you can understand no matter what your major. With features like "What Do You Think?" and "Try It Yourself," you'll understand what you're experiencing on campus and in the classroom from a linguistics perspective. The expanded study sections and the available workbook provide you with the tools you'll need for effective test prep.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #32014 in Books
- Published on: 2007-04-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 608 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Finegan routinely uses other languages as well as English to illustrate virtually every important topic. This is probably the single strongest feature of the book. In addition, the end of chapter exercises and the separate workbook are very good and the range of topics covered is excellent. And Finegan’s sympathy to the performative aspects of language use (language as a communication system that utilizes broader cultural knowledge and contextual cues as well as linguistic competence) is a breath of fresh air."
"Throughout the text, Finegan consistently exhibits a clear, lively writing style that engages the students without sounding condescending. With only a couple of exceptions the chapters beyond the core topics of phonetics, phonology, morphology, and syntax are gems as stand-alone essays on the nature of language. I truly regret that I don’t have more time in a semester to include more of them… The exercises at the ends of the chapters are excellent."
Customer Reviews
Oh Amazon...
I was not aware that this was the international version of the book, and even though it is the same thing, it would have been nice if Amazon did not bunch all of them together.
