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English Linguistics A Coursebook for Student’s Of English Book
English Linguistics A Coursebook for Student’s Of English Book is the moment the language student stops only using English and starts taking it apart. Linguistics is the science of language — its sounds, its structures, its meanings, its life in society — and a coursebook for students of English aims that science at the language they are themselves studying, so that every phenomenon has a familiar specimen. The student of English and the student of linguistics are usually the same person at different hours; this book is written for the hour when the user of the language becomes its anatomist. Its reader is the undergraduate meeting phonemes and syntax trees for the first time, the teacher who wants the theory beneath the classroom’s habits, and the self-taught reader who suspects grammar rules have reasons. On this shelf the volume stands with the language-study books here: where English gets taken apart to be understood.
English Linguistics A Coursebook for Student’s Of English Book is a coursebook introduction to linguistics — the science of language — written for students of English itself: sounds, structures, and meanings studied in the language its readers are studying, so every phenomenon comes with a familiar specimen. Its readers are the undergraduates meeting the science formally, the teachers wanting the theory under their habits, and the self-taught generally. On this shelf it stands with the language-study books here: where English gets taken apart to be understood. Understanding survives the dissection intact. Dissection here is a form of respect. Respect sharpens observation daily.
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English Linguistics A Coursebook for Student’s Of English Book is a coursebook in English linguistics, addressed to students of English — the science of language taught through the language its readers study. The destination heading gives the exact title, its curly apostrophe intact; the file served there, ‘English Linguistics A Coursebook for Students of English.pdf’ (its double space preserved), carries the title in the file’s form — the apostrophe dropped, the same double-spaced naming the site serves it by. The book’s work is initiation: to make linguists of language students, sound by sound and structure by structure.
Linguistics asks a peculiar favour of its beginners: to treat the most familiar thing they own — their own language behaviour — as strange. The student of English arrives fluent in the data and ignorant of its organisation, able to judge a sentence grammatical without any idea what the judgement is made of. A coursebook’s first service is therefore estrangement done kindly: the sound stream resolved into phonemes, the sentence resolved into constituents, the word resolved into morphemes, meaning resolved into the relations speakers negotiate — each level given its tools, its notation, its classic puzzles. Its second service is discipline about evidence: linguistic claims rest on data — corpora, elicited judgements, recordings — and the student learns to argue from specimens rather than from taste, which is the precise opposite of how language is usually argued about. A coursebook addressed to students of English specifically can use its readers’ own knowledge as the laboratory: every native or learned intuition about English becomes an instrument, every puzzling sentence a specimen under glass. That is why the pairing in the title matters — linguistics supplies the science, English supplies the evidence the student already carries. Taught well, the subject permanently changes how its graduates hear their own speech: the accent becomes phonology, the slang becomes sociolinguistics, the child’s error becomes acquisition data, and the language is never merely used again — it is also, always, observed.
What Learners Will Practise
Taking the Sentence Apart
Students practise analysis — resolving fluent speech into sounds, words, and structures with the discipline’s tools — until the familiar turns legible. Analysis is estrangement with a method.
Arguing from Specimens
The book practises evidence discipline: claims about English tested against data and native judgement rather than taste. Linguistics is where opinions about language go to be examined.
Hearing One’s Own Speech
Readers practise self-observation — accent as phonology, slang as social signal, error as data — using the laboratory they carry everywhere. The student’s own English is the course’s richest specimen.
Key Features
The specimen advantage is the feature: the science taught through the very language its students study, so no phenomenon is abstract for long. The gentle estrangement is the second — the familiar made strange without being made forbidding — and the shelf fit the third, the science of language beside this list’s easier dictionary and its classroom grammar rules. On this shelf it opens the language up here.
Who This Book Is For
Students of English meeting linguistics are its first audience, served by a coursebook that uses what they know. Teachers of English form its second readership, collecting the theory beneath their practice. The analytically curious make its third, since few sciences let the reader be the specimen.
How to Use This Book
Work it in its course order — the levels of analysis are cumulative, sound before structure before meaning. Do the analysis exercises with pencil in hand; linguistics is learned by dissecting, not by admiring dissections. Keep a notebook of specimens from your own day’s speech — the course’s data is everywhere once the ear is trained.
Related Books
The shelf’s easier dictionary stands at Easier English Student Dictionary Upper Intermediate Book, and its classroom grammar rules at Grammar Rules For Student’s Book.
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