How to Study Languages - A Guide to Understanding Language, 2nd edition

If you are new to linguistics as a subject and beginning a course at undergraduate or sixth-form level, How to Study Linguistics is the ideal introduction and companion to your studies. - Covers all the core areas of linguistic study, with chapters discussing strategies for studying phonology, syntax and semantics.- Explores other branches of linguistics such as sociolinguistics, stylistics, and psycholinguistics.- Includes a chapter on writing linguistics essays and a detailed glossary to aid learning and revision.- Second edition includes new material designed to help the more advanced reader. How to Study Linguistics is both a guide to current ideas about linguistics and a refreshingly practical text book. It will not only develop your skills as a language student, but will also make an often complex and daunting subject easy to understand, and a pleasure to study.>

List of contents

Beginning Linguistics
The Linguistic Context
Studying Sound
Studying Syntax
Studying Meaning
Studying Linguistics Further
How to Write a Linguistics Essay.

About the author

GEOFFREY FINCH is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Anglia Polytechnic University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Marti Coyle, Martin Coyle, Geoffre Finch, Geoffrey Finch, John Peck
• Assisted by: Martin Coyle (Editor), John Peck (Editor)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2003
• EAN: 9781403901064
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-0106-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Palgrave Study Guides; Palgrave Study Skills; Palgrave Study Guides: Literature; Palgrave Study Guides:Literature; Macmillan Study Skills; Palgrave Study Skills; Macmillan Study Skills
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies; B, Linguistics, Study skills, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Study and Learning Skills