"Describing Language"
Authors: David Graddol, Jenny Cheshire and Joan Swann.
1995 2nd Edition.
Paperback Book. 250 pages.
Very good, clean condition, like new. Never read and stored on bookshelf since acquired.
No markings or creases to pages. No wrinkles to spine or loose pages.
Edges and corners to pages and cover still "sharp".Published by: Open University Press.

"A student introduction to descriptive linguistics".
Topics covered include:- phonetics.- prosody.- word structure.- syntax.- text and discourse structure.- word and utterance meaning.- non-verbal behaviour.
Contents:
1) The nature of language.
2) The sounds of language.
3) Sentence and word structure.
4) Meaning.
5) Writing systems.
6) Face-to-face interaction.
7) Discourse and text.