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Second Edition

For The Love of Language

An Introduction to Linguistics

For the Love of Language: An Introduction to Linguistics is a comprehensive and engaging introduction to human language and the role of linguistics in understanding its fundamental design, acquisition and functions. Replete with case studies and examples from Australia, New Zealand and around the world, this text offers a thorough introduction to core topics, including the structure and meaning of words, the systems that organise language, strategies for learning about language, the evolution of language and the function of language as a complex social resource.

The second edition includes extensive new content across the entire text, including the areas of orthography, syntax, corpus linguistics, language acquisition and multilingualism. Each topic is accompanied by a wide array of pedagogical resources designed to consolidate student understanding, including examples, exercises and discussion points. Each chapter ends with a research project, providing readers with an opportunity to build on fundamental skills and engage more thoroughly with each topic through independent research.

Written by leading authors in the field of linguistics, For the Love of Language is an essential resource for undergraduate students in foundation linguistics.

Kate Burridge is Professor of Linguistics in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, and a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Tonya N. Stebbins is Professor of Linguistics at La Trobe University.

Second Edition

For The Love of Language

An Introduction to Linguistics

Kate Burridge

Tonya N. Stebbins

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Contents

Simon Musgrave

Preface

After many years of teaching first-year linguistics from a variety of textbooks, piles of notes, selected readings and so on, we decided to write the textbook we had always wanted a textbook that:

• covered a full year of content to save on textbook costs for students
• included comprehensive exercises, discussion points, ideas for research projects to facilitate team teaching and course planning
• showcased the applications of linguistics to real life
• focused on a small number of case-study languages so students could get a deeper sense of language diversity
• was accessible but provided strong foundations for later years. Each of these choices has had an influence on the book you are now reading and challenged us to think about new ways to juggle the competing priorities we set ourselves. Following is a brief summary of how the book is set up as a result.

Content

The text is arranged into six parts:

• Part I Using language to expose language: Setting the scene
• Part II In the beginning was the word: Words, their structure and meaning
• Part III The deep grooves of language: Sounds and grammar
• Part IV Language is a social fact: Variation and change
• Part V Language that rolls up its sleeves: Language at work
• Part VI Language is the dress of thought: Language, mind and world.

We imagine that two or three parts of the text would be enough to fill a twelve- to thirteen-week semester. As a result, there may be sections of the text that students do not cover in class. These could be set as pre-reading for later courses.

We chose this breadth of content to provide lecturers with flexibility regarding what they covered and also to demonstrate to students the relevance that linguistics has to so many areas of life. Naturally, if a unit focuses quite deeply on a specific topic, an additional reading or two may be needed.

Supporting materials

The book is best read and used in conjunction with the supporting materials available on the website. These include additional exercises and research projects as well as more information on the case-study languages and referencing conventions.

Case-study languages

Why case-study languages? And why these particular choices? Our case-study languages are Auslan, English, German, Gurindji (and Gurindji Kriol), Japanese, Mali, Mori, Russian and Turung. Each of these languages is introduced to readers on the website. We wanted to focus on a smaller number of languages than included in the typical introductory text so that students could gain familiarity with new languages and see how methods and concepts from linguistics aid this type of learning. We included English as a starting point in many chapters since, in our experience, it can be helpful to start students off with what they already know. It was also important to us to include Auslan, Mori and an Australian Aboriginal language because some awareness of these languages is important in many of the professions in which linguistics students find themselves working later in life. Other people may have made different choices with around 6000 languages to choose from, there are lots of interesting options!

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