Books like The study of language by George Yule

A guide for teachers of foreign languages, focusing on how linguistics can inform language teaching decisions.

An Introduction to Language is a student-friendly, up-to-date guide covering the core components of linguistics—phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics—while integrating recent research on bilingualism, neurolinguistics, and sociolinguistics.

In recent years, the Internet has come to dominate our lives. E-mail, instant messaging and chat are rapidly replacing conventional forms of correspondence, and the Web has become the first port of call for both information enquiry and leisure activity. How is this affecting language? There is a widespread view that as 'technospeak' comes to rule, standards will be lost. In this book, David Crystal argues the reverse: that the Internet has encouraged a dramatic expansion in the variety and creativity of language. Covering a range of Internet genres, including e-mail, chat, and the Web, this is a revealing account of how the Internet is radically changing the way we use language. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to account for more recent phenomena, with a brand new chapter on blogging and instant messaging. Engaging and accessible, it will continue to fascinate anyone who has ever used the Internet.

An excellent overview of how all the world's main languages interconnect where they do. It also gives samples of the language with translation for a large number of languages.

An accessible, engaging introduction to linguistics, covering grammar, pragmatics, metaphor, discourse, and sign language with a glossary and further reading list.

A college‑level textbook that introduces core concepts of linguistics.