An Introduction to Language

Whether you are studying education, languages, psychology, anthropology, English, or teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), AN INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE, International Edition, offers the information you need in a clear and descriptive manner that assumes no prior knowledge of linguistics.

Teaching in the Pop Culture Zone: Using Popular Culture in the Composition Classroom

This professional development text offers insights and strategies about using pop culture in the writing classroom. This volume is edited by the authors of The Pop Culture Zone: Writing Critically about Popular Culture and includes essays by authors who share details of their most effective class ideas and writing assignments.

The Word Snoop

Meet the Word Snoop. She's dashing and daring and witty as can be - and no one knows more about the evolution of the English language than she does. Luckily, she's spilling her secrets in this gem of a book. From the first alphabet in 4000 BC, to anagrams, palindromes, and modern-day text messages, readers will learn all about the fascinating twists and turns our fair language has taken to become what it is today. With playful black-and-white illustrations, riddles to solve, and codes to break, The Word Snoop is definitive proof that words can spark the imagination and are anything but dull. This is a book for every aspiring writer, and every true reader.

Philosophical Perspectives on Language

Philosophical theorizing about language now involves an increasing emphasis on empirical work and a renewed convergence with philosophy of mind, formal semantics and logic. This new text reflects this evolution. 'Philosophical Perspectives on Language' is distinguished in several important respects from other introductions to the topic. Rather than looking at philosophy of language as a collection of (at best) loosely related topics - speech meaning, etc. - this book is organized around a unifying theme: language as a system of symbols that is known and used.

The emergence of standard English

" Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was, and still is, made under the control of political and intellectual forces."