by George Yule · Cambridge University Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780521318778
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«The Study of Language» is George Yule's introduction to linguistics, published by Cambridge University Press in paperback (228 pages, in English).
Introduction to linguistics for non-specialist readers: it explains sounds, words, grammatical structures and meanings, and reviews the origin of language, animal communication, language acquisition in children, second-language learning, sign language, and social and regional varieties.
First published in 1985. It consists of twenty chapters with study questions, discussion topics and reading suggestions, and includes a bibliography and index.
The book serves as a course textbook and as reading for non-specialists interested in how language works.
George Yule was a Scottish merchant in England and India who served as the fourth President of the Indian National Congress in 1888 at Allahabad, the first non-Indian to hold that office. He was the founder of George Yule & Co. of London, and headed Andrew Yule & Co., of Calcutta. He served as Sheriff of Calcutta and President of Bengal Chamber of Commerce.
