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1. Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations On The Tangled History Of The English Language
- Used Book in Good Condition
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| Height | 8.5 inches |
| Length | 5.5 inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | June 2005 |
| Weight | 0.63272669194 pounds |
| Width | 0.52 inches |
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1. Weeds in the Garden of Words: Further Observations On The Tangled History Of The English Language
- Used Book in Good Condition
Features:
Specs:
| Height | 8.5 inches |
| Length | 5.5 inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | June 2005 |
| Weight | 0.63272669194 pounds |
| Width | 0.52 inches |
As far as I know, the most popular introductory textbook is Fromkin's. You can get an older edition for cheaper. I studied with the 5th edition less than 3 years ago and it was fine. For something less unwieldy and more practical to carry around with you, Barry Blake's All About Language is really good. Less than 300 pages and manages to cover a huge amount of stuff clearly.
Personally, I think that historical linguistics is a really fun and relatively easy way to get into Linguistics as a whole so I'd recommend Trask's Historical Linguistics. I know that the Campbell and Crowley textbooks are also very popular, but I don't have personal experience with them. Maybe somebody else can weigh in on which is easiest for a beginner?
I have to plug my professor Kate Burridge here who has written some excellent pop-linguistics books: Gifts of the Gob, Weeds in the Garden of Words and Blooming English. Her more serious books are also written in a highly accessible manner and she is probably one of the world's experts on Euphemism and taboo. Here's a clip of her in action.
Some fun linguistics-related videos:
TED - The Uncanny Science of Linguistic Reconstruction
Pinker on Swearing
David Crystal on British tv
Another fun way to learn would be to listen to this song and look up all the terms used in it.