It’s been a good two years since the last edition, so what’s changed? One key enhancement is a considerable expansion of the end-of-unit study questions and tasks. If your university offers a course on it, there’s probably an introductory chapter on it in The Study of Language. And it has doubtless done so for many other courses, having become something of a modern classic it offers a solid and systematic overview of all branches of the field, from historical linguistics to second language acquisition. It’s a text with some measure of nostalgia for me, appearing on a preliminary reader list ahead of my own MSc. Appropriately, this week’s doormat delight was George Yule‘s essential Linguistics primer The Study of Language, refreshed and updated in its 8th iteration. Well, we have to live by some adage don’t we? And perhaps it’s the time of year, but shiny new tomes in the postbox do have their appeal.
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