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| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5229 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 1 of 32 26 September 2013 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Does anyone have an opinion on what a good introduction to linguistics text is? Somewhat inspired by the recent thread about Clugston, I'd like to pursue the discipline independently. Any information anyone would like to share would be appreciated?
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| Henkkles Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4254 days ago 544 posts - 1141 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Swedish Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 32 26 September 2013 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Linguistics is a huge swamp of all sorts of information, what do you want to read about? Historical-comparative linguistics, areal linguistics, etc.
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| I'm With Stupid Senior Member Vietnam Joined 4174 days ago 165 posts - 349 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Vietnamese | Message 3 of 32 26 September 2013 at 11:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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The best way to go about this is to look at university courses, and they often publish their reading list in the prospectus or online. There are usually one or two books that students are expected to buy, and they're usually the books that offer the overview (also quick tip: they're also the ones that are never checked out of the library, because everyone has their own copy, if you fancy saving some money). If you're specifically interested in second language acquisition, then look at applied linguistics courses and modules on second language acquisition. Edited by I'm With Stupid on 26 September 2013 at 11:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ali495 Newbie United States pinterest.com/alicia Joined 4162 days ago 10 posts - 14 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 32 27 September 2013 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
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My university (Missouri State) used this textbook for the intro course and I'm fond of
it, personally. http://www.amazon.com/Linguistics-Non-Linguists-Primer-Exerc ises-5th/dp/0137152043 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 5 of 32 27 September 2013 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||
As Henkkles has said, Linguistics is a huge field. It's pretty impossible to recommend any source without knowing which branch interests you. If you just need an introduction to linguistics and all its branches and sub-fields of study, pretty much any Intro to Linguistics or 101 book will do. Amazon has tons to choose from. From there, you might want to take a look at some Applied Linguistics resources. It's probably what's most applicable to language-learning (if that's the relation you're looking for with linguistics courses and resources). R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5566 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 6 of 32 27 September 2013 at 10:11am | IP Logged | ||
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When I took linguistics at university as a voluntary two term long course we used this
as our main textbook: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction-Language-International- FROMKIN- RODMAN/dp/1439082413 It covers the main areas of the subject and has references to readings. Edited by Elexi on 27 September 2013 at 10:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ScottScheule Diglot Senior Member United States scheule.blogspot.com Joined 5229 days ago 645 posts - 1176 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Hungarian, Biblical Hebrew, Old English, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, French | Message 7 of 32 27 September 2013 at 3:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks all!
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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5586 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 8 of 32 28 September 2013 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm using this for my intro to linguistics course, it's pretty well written!
http://books.google.com/books/about/Language.html?id=0oQJPHJ jCSAC I've heard some of the Teach Yourself: Linguistics are good too! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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