English Language Description, Variation and Context

Ruth Wodak, Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba, Anthony McEnery, Paul Kerswill — 2018

What is the English language like, why is it like that and what do we need to know in order to study it? This wide ranging introductory textbook not only presents the English language from multiple perspectives, but provides the reader with the necessary grounding in linguistics to investigate it for themselves.