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An Introduction to Language and Linguistics Breaking the Language Spell

''Christopher Hall''s book is the best new introduction to linguistics that I have seen in decades. It is engagingly written without talking down to the reader and it covers all the subparts of the field in a comprehensive and even-handed manner. I plan to use it the next time that I teach an introductory course at Washington.'' Professor Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington ''With apt examples from novels and newspapers, courtroom trials and telephone conversations, the lowly and the mighty, his book repeatedly startles as it casts light on language. This is a bright, humorous, a.

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