What is This Thing Called Language? - Softcover

Nunan, David

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9780230008489: What is This Thing Called Language?

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230008488 ISBN 13: 9780230008489

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

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Written in a friendly style, drawing on a wide range of anecdotes from the author's own experience, this book provides an ideal starting point for those approaching language study. Nunan's enthusiasm and the immediacy of his examples offer students a thought-provoking way into the basics of study such as syntax, morphology and phonology. Raising awareness about the different ways language is used, this book provides a solid linguistic framework and lots of suggestions for where to find out more.

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About the Author:

DAVID NUNAN is Director of the English Centre and Chair Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong, and Dean of the Graduate School of Education, Anaheim University.

Review:

'The book is written in a very relaxed and readable style...a useful companion reader for undergraduates in English or language-related programmes...as well as for all those members of the general public interested in 'the stuff that surrounds them." - Alan Maley, English Teaching Professional 'An eminently useful and readable guide...a book I certainly needed when I first started teaching A Level English Language.' - Jane Bluett, The Professional Journal of the National Association for the Teaching of English

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