This introduction to linguistics is especially designed for students of English with a German-speaking background. It concentrates on the traditional core areas of linguistics, without neglecting interdisciplinary and applied branches. For this 4th, revised edition all chapters were updated, and the book now contains a chapter about the history of the English language. Table of Contents: Introduction: What is linguistics? · The core area of linguistics: grammar · Phonetics and Phonology · Language change · History of the English language · Semantics ·Pragmatics: the context of language use · Textlinguistics. Conversation analysis. Discourse analysis · Sociolinguistics · Psycholinguistics. Neurolinguistics. Biolinguistics · Exercises · Bibliographical section, Index cum glossary

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Prof. Dr. Paul Georg Meyer ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft an der RWTH Aachen.