by David Crystal · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140226409
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«Linguistics» is David Crystal's introduction to linguistics, published by Penguin UK in paperback (288 pages, in English).
This introduction to linguistics starts from the general interest in language and its role as the main means of communication between people, industries and nations to explain how the discipline went from being an amateur study to a widespread academic discipline during the 20th century.
This second edition of 1985 revises the work originally published in 1971, within the Penguin Language & Linguistics series.
Suitable for the general public and for students approaching linguistics for the first time.
David Crystal is a British linguist who studies the English language.
