Pearson Longman is home to some of the world’s best-known series, authors and texts in linguistics. Publishing across a wide range of subjects in traditional and applied linguistics, the Longman list offers students at every level an accessible and engaging way in to the discipline.
Words: A User's Guide is an accessible and invaluable reference that is ideal for students, business people and advanced learners of English. The book is structured in groups of words that may be confused because they sound alike, look alike or seem to have similar meanings, and this approach makes it much more intuitive and easy to use than a dictionary.
Examining the way people use language in different social contexts provides a wealth of information about the way language works, as well as about the social relationships in a community. An Introduction to Sociolinguistics explores both these aspects of sociolinguistic study. This updated, expanded third edition is the number one introduction to socio-linguistics on the market.
Uniquely combining both theory and practice, and covering both learning and teaching, this reader-friendly book is the complete handbook on language learning. This new edition will re-position the book at the cutting edge of developments in both academic theory and classroom practice.
Over a period of more than forty years, Geoffrey Leech has made notable contributions to the field of literary stylistics, using the interplay between linguistic form and literary function as a key to the 'mystery' of how a text comes to be invested with artistic potential. In this book, seven earlier papers and articles have been brought together with four new chapters, the whole volume showing a continuity of approach across a period when all too often literary and linguistic studies have appeared to drift further apart.....
