{"id":3015,"date":"2014-08-08T09:05:11","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T09:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2014-09-24T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:16:47","slug":"new-book-from-david-hornsby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/08\/08\/new-book-from-david-hornsby\/","title":{"rendered":"New book from David Hornsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/hornsby.html\">Dr David Hornsby<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a> has just published a new book entitled <em>Linguistics: A Complete Introduction<\/em> (Hodder &amp; Stroughton, 2014).<\/p>\n<p>Part of the\u00a0\u2018Teach Yourself\u2019 series, it is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added value features like summaries of key books, and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.<\/p>\n<p>The book uses a structure that mirrors many university courses on linguistics \u2013 with separate chapters focusing on linguistic thought, syntax, sound systems, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, language acquisition, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the book, please see the publisher\u2019s page here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hodder.co.uk\/books\/detail.page?isbn=9781444180329\">https:\/\/www.hodder.co.uk\/books\/detail.page?isbn=9781444180329<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr David Hornsby from the Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics has just published a new book entitled Linguistics: A Complete Introduction (Hodder &amp; Stroughton, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/08\/08\/new-book-from-david-hornsby\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135857,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}