Discovering language provides students with the basic knowledge they need for advanced study. Organized thematically, it can be used as a course text or help with specific aspects of language. Each section includes an introduction, worked examples, 'in context' sections relating the topic to real examples and suggestions for further reading.

Series Preface
Introduction
Phonetics
Phonology
Word
Phrase
Clause and Sentence
Semantics
Theory, Text and Context
Exercises and Questions
Appendix 1: Syntactic Tree Diagrams
Bibliography

LESLEY JEFFRIES is Principal Lecturer in English at Huddersfield University, UK. She is author of Meaning in English and The Language of Twentieth Century Poetry, and series editor for Perspectives on the English Language.