Introducing Sociolinguistics provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field. It covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates-presenting familiar or classic data in new ways, and supplementing the familiar with fresh examples from a wide range of languages and social settings.
The audiobook includes the unabridged version of some Katherine Mansfield's stories and the extract from "The Forsyte Saga" by John Galsworthy. Read by Cora McDonald.
This book provides an introduction to some classic ideas and analyses of transformational generative grammar, viewed both on their own terms and from a more modern, or minimalist perspective. The major focus is on the set of analyses treating English verbal morphology. The book shows how the analyses in Chomsky's classic Syntactic Structures actually work, filling in underlying assumptions and often unstated formal particulars.
Review: Science fiction author, specialising in satire, spoofs and paradoxes, highly imaginative and, in rare moments of non-frivolity, surprisingly dark. "Robert Sheckley is one of the great funny writers." -- Douglas Adams Plot: The classic SF story about a man who is mistakenly treated by a Martian psychotherapy machine.
