Key Concepts in Language and Linguistics

By Geoffrey Finch

Book Overview

Previously published as Linguistic Terms and Concepts, this is an invaluable glossary of significant language and linguistic terms and concepts designed for students of English Language and Linguistics. This book also provides a very useful overview of the subject as well as covering principal figures in linguistic criticism and their contribution. Organized into the core subject areas of language and linguistics, it enables the reader to contextualize each particular definition and gain a wider understanding of each topic. This edition has been updated to include more extensive coverage, particularly of language terms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140393391X
• ISBN13: 9781403933911
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

This book saved my 4.0 GPA!

We are using an awful linguistics text for my graduate applied linguistics course: Linguistics for Non-Linguists: A Primer with Exercises (4th Edition) - see my review. Only everyone's online reviews of this linguistics handbook, Linguistics Terms and Concepts by Geoffrey Finch saved me. The author is British - so he really knows English - in a way I think we are just approaching in the states, as in, it's in his DNA. And can you imagine a linguistics book that is a soothing and poetic read? Well you have found it. Finch loves the language and instructs us in it so tenderly that I can hardly imagine what life would have been like without it. Buy this book! :)