Now in its third edition, published in 2011, our textbook The Language of Language. A Linguistics Course for Starters is aimed at multilingual speakers of English with no prior background in language studies. 

Our goal is to encourage informed thinking about (why) language matters. Packed with over 100 commented activities, examples of language play, and fun “food for thought”, the book is designed to foster independent exploration of language and linguistics. 
It comes complete with a workbook, Lang101 Workbook.

The textbook is appropriate for language teacher training, as well as for language study courses at A-level/junior college or university level.


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Rebecca Helm-Ropelato
Excerpt: “What is especially fun – works great as a word game – are the dozens of boxed questions running through the chapters. [...] But lest I mislead by highlighting the book’s entertaining content, it’s important to emphasize that “The Language of Language” is a substantive scholarly work.”
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