The book is an exciting and ambitious new series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. It is designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider course. This volume is conceived equally as a workbook and as a textbook. In most chapters the text is interrupted from time to time and you are asked to carry out a particular task.. Each chapter ends with a number of exercises, practicing the points dealt with in the chapter. Like the tasks, these frequently involve consulting a dictionary