TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garavito,Joyce Bruhn de
AU  - Schwieter,John W.
TI  - Introducing linguistics: theoretical and applied approaches 
SN  - 9781108482554
AV  - P121 .I57 2020
U1  - 410 GAR (CR) 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Applied linguistics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "Everything we do involves language. Assuming no prior knowledge, this book offers students a contemporary introduction to the study of language. Each thoughtprovoking chapter is accessible to readers from a variety of fields, and is helpfully organized across six parts: sound; structure and meaning; language typologies and change; language and social aspects; language acquisition; and language, cognition, and the brain. The book's companion website also offers three brief chapters on language and computers; animal communication; and dialectal varieties of English. The chapters feature illustrative tables, figures and maps, along with three types of pedagogical boxes (Linguistic Tidbits; Pause and Reflect; and Eyes on World Languages) that break up text, contextualize information, and provide colourful accents that give real data from languages across the globe. Key words are bolded and defined in a glossary at the end of the book, while end-of-chapter summaries and practice exercises reinforce the key points discussed"--
ER  -