A one-stop student resource covering all aspects of studying language and linguistics from the core topics, terms and concepts of the subject to study skills and career pathways. The companion provides a gateway to wider and more specialist reading and will be an essential resource for students to turn to time and time again.

PART I: STUDYING LANGUAGE
Approaching Language
Study Skills
PART II: STUDYING LANGUAGE: CORE TOPICS
Phonetics - The Science of Speech Sounds
Phonology - Sound Systems in Languages
Morphology - Word Structures
Syntax
Fundamentals of Semantics and Pragmatics 
Meanings, Maxims and Speech Acts
Sociolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Applied Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Stylistics
Discourse and Conversation
Corpus Linguistics
Digital Tools in Linguistics
Forensic Linguistics
From Pictures to Writing
PART III: KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS
PART IV: SOME KEY LINGUISTS
PART V: CONDUCTING RESEARCH AND IDENTIFYING RESOURCES
PART VI: CAREER PATHWAYS
INDEX

GEOFF FINCH has taught English at universities in New Zealand and Nigeria and was Senior Lecturer in English at Anglia Polytechnic University, where he lectured and wrote on both language and literature. He is the author of Linguistic Terms and Concepts and How to Study Linguistics.

KEITH ALLAN is Reader in Linguistics at Monash University, Australia. His research focuses on aspects of meaning in Language and his publications include Natural Language Semantics, Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language and The Western Classical Tradition in Linguistics.  He is the Editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Semantics and Co-Editor (with Kate Burridge) of the Australian Journal of Linguistics.

JULIE BRADSHAW is Lecturer in Linguistics at Monash University, Australia.  She has taught English as a foreign language in the UK and Libya, and Linguistics in the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.  Her main interests are in the sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition and use.
 
GEORGINA HEYDON is Research Fellow in the Linguistics Program at Monash University, Australia. She has lectured in Linguistics at Aarhus University, Denmark, and is the author of The Language of Police Interviewing.

KATE BURRIDGE is both Professor and Chair of Linguistics in the Linguistics Program in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University.  She is the co-author, with Keith Allan, of Forbidden Words: Taboo and the Censoring of Language and also a regular presenter of language segments on ABC Radio.