Language: Introductory Readings

by Virginia P. Clark and Alfred F. [Editors] Clark, Virginia P.; Escholz, Paul A.; Rosa

Book Overview

Language: Introductory Readings offers forty-four thematically arranged readings on crucial topics in linguistics. This new edition offers fourteen new selections and five commissioned selections have... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312005083
• ISBN13: 9780312005085
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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Language introductory readings: More to it than we know

This book does not focus on one topic, rather on many subjects within the wide category of language. It has eight topics. The first section of this book focuses on Language and Its Study, however, as the book goes on, it focuses more closely on how language is throughout the world. It keys in on specifics such as, why girls talk the way they do and why boys talk the way they do. Other areas of interest I found in this book were the process of sign language and how children learn the words they speak. I thought that talking about the roots of language would be quite uninteresting, so I chose this book because it applied the language to everyday activities and natural occurrences that can happen all around the world since we are such a diverse society. Overall, I would recommend this book because you are able to pick whatever section out of the book you want to read, not just obtaining the background information on our language but also how we use it in today's world. For a project I had to do in school, I focused on how children develop their words and sentence structures. I added information to my before knowledge of how children learned. In conclusion, I found that human language is extremely complicated and has many unique characteristics.