CONTENTS: I CAN/YOU CAN, TOO/DOGS/THE LITTLE MAN AND THE BIG MAN/I LIKE/BOB/WHO IS THAT MAN?/WHY?/A RHYMING GAME

Who Can?

Smith, Carl B.

Wardhaugh, Ronald

Macmillan Pub. Co.

viii 239p glossary, bibliography, index, some faint pencil marks, spine a little sunned, otherwise very good

Introduction to linguistics

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

McGraw=Hill

Workbook to accompany Introduction to linguistics

The 1977 second edition of this book. While certain linguistic theories have changed, this is still an excellent book to learn the major foundations of the linguistic field.

Introduction to Linguistics

Words, Language & Grammar

Mcgraw-Hill College

How conversation works (The Language library)

B. Blackwell in association with André Deutsch

Conversation is very often spontaneous, natural and informal. But even at its most casual it is governed by rules and principles of language and behaviour. This book lays bare the structure of conversation, describing what happens when people talk to each other and explaining why they say what they say in a wide variety of circumstances. 
Ronald Wardhaugh explores many aspects of conversation, asking how conversations start, how we decide who will speak next, how we change the subject, and how we know when a conversation has finished. How Conversation Works is the most accessible guide to discourse analysis and pragmatics yet written and will be read with profit and enjoyment by students and general readers alike.

How Conversation Works (Language Library)

Wiley/Blackwell

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Blackwell*publishers

Of the 5000 languages currently extant in the world, five account for 45% of the world's population, and 100 for 95%. This book explores why some languages flourish well beyond their own native borders, while thousands of others lie under threat of decline and perhaps even extinction. By what means do these languages gain the upper hand, and what happens to those they eclipse? What are the advantages that speakers perceive in languages on the ascendant? Can minority languages be preserved, except as relics, by those who fight so hard to keep them alive? The author explores the historical and political importance of language as the expression of national identity and power, and charts those processes inherent to language itself that can attract or repel potential speakers. In particular he tracks the ways in which English and French have contested for pre-eminence as forces in both the cultures of their colonized territories and in those spheres of activity vital to the modern world.

Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity, and Decline (Language Library)

Languages in Competition: Dominance, Diversity, and Decline (The Language Library)

Blackwell Pub.

The second edition of this textbook has been thoroughly revised to include discussion of developments in sociolinguistics since the mid-1980s, referring in the process to some 100 recent books and papers. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of most of the topics dealt with in courses described as either "sociolinguistics" or "the sociology of language". Ronald Wardhaugh examines in full - dialect, language variation, pidgin and Creole languages, language change, ethnography, language and gender, and social codes. He gives a useful analysis of statistical methodology and a comprehensive introduction to the central topics of sociolinguistics. Each topic dealt with concludes with questions for discussion in the classroom, and references for further reading.

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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