Book review – Linguistics: An Introduction by William B. McGregor
Linguistics is a fresh and contemporary introductory textbook for all students of linguistics and language studies. Firmly based around taught courses and catering directly to student needs, it addresses all of the topics that a student will need in their initial and subsequent study of language.
With key terms, further reading, questions at the end of each chapter, exercises and key paragraphs in stand-out boxes, this is a firmly pedagogic text that takes difficult concepts and explains them in an easily understandable way, with examples taken from a range of languages across the world. Global in its scope and comprehensive in its coverage, this is the textbook of choice for linguistics students.
Are you looking for a well-balanced and informative introductory text? The book will make it clear to students what it means to say that linguistics is thee science of language.
M.A.K. Halliday
The text does a good job of explaining and demystifying difficult terms and concepts, and contains exercises designed to sharpen exam technique. It also has a very good supporting companion website with videos, questions, diagrams and other extra material.
Imprint: Continuum
Pub. date: 15 Jan 2009
ISBN: 9781847063670
408 Pages, paperback
£21.99
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