Title: Useful, but dated
Product review: This reprint of the 1985 second edition of "Linguistics" does offer some insights into the study of language. These insights are mainly to be garnered from Crystal's often amusing coverage of the history of the emergence of linguistics as an art and a science. I found the book somewhat helpful but limited in that it is written from the viewpoint of the mid-eighties and so does not cover developments since then.
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