TY - BOOK AU - McWhorter,John ED - Teaching Company TI - Understanding linguistics : : the science of language T2 - The great courses SN - 1598034782 AV - LB 14.6 M478u 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Chantilly, Va. PB - Teaching Co. KW - Educación KW - Enseñanza KW - Lingüística KW - Lenguaje y lenguas N1 - Course no. 2270 ; "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover N2 - "As an introduction to linguistic science, this course's main goal is to show that speaking is more than a matter of knowing words and putting them in order. Linguists have discovered that language is an intricate hierarchy of systems, ever changing in surface appearance but ever consistent in organizational essence"--Course guidebook ER -