Linguistics: Reading list Prof. Jessner-Schmid
Guidelines: You need to choose six books from different fields of linguistics. If you are
particularly interested in one field, you are allowed to choose two books from that one (!) field.
Phonetics / Phonology:
Scandera, Paul and Peter Burleigh. 2006. A Manual of English Phonetics and Phonology.
Narr.
Clark, John and Colin Yallop. 2006. An Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology (3rd ed.).
Blackwell.
Morphology:
Bauer, Laurie. 2003. Introducing Linguistic Morphology (2nd ed.). Edinburgh UP.
Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word Formation in English. Cambridge UP.
Syntax:
Radford, Andrew. 1997. Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist
Approach. Cambridge UP.
Halliday, Michael A. K. 2004. An Introduction to Functional Grammar (3rd ed.). Arnold.
Downing, Angela and Philip Locke. 2005. English Grammar: A University Course (2nd ed.).
Taylor & Francis.
Semantics / Lexikology:
Cruse, Alan. 2004. Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (2nd
ed.). Oxford UP.
Allan, Keith. 2001. Natural Language Semantics. Blackwell.
Lipka, Leonhard. 2002. English Lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics, and WordFormation. Narr.
Pragmatics / Discourse analysis / Conversation analysis:
Mey, Jacob. 2001. Pragmatics: An Introduction (2nd ed.). Blackwell.
Verschueren, Jef. 1998. Understanding Pragmatics. Hodder Arnold.
Johnstone, Barbara. 2007. Discourse Analysis. Blackwell.
History of the English language / Historical linguistics:
Baugh, Albert and Thomas Cable. 2002. A History of the English Language (5th ed.). Taylor
& Francis.
Trask, R. 1996. Historical Linguistics. Arnold.
Applied linguistics (overview):
Cook, Guy. 2003. Applied Linguistics (Oxford Introductions to Language Study). Oxford UP.
Cook, Guy and Sarah North. 2009. Applied Linguistics in Action: A Reader. Routledge.
Carter, Ronald. 2001. The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of Other
Languages. Cambrige UP.
Language acquisition:
Saville-Troike, Muriel. 2005. Introducing Second Language Acquisition. Cambridge UP.
Dörnyei, Zoltan. 2009. The Psychology of Second Language Aquisition. Oxford UP.
Cook, Vivian (ed.). Portraits of the L2 User. Multilingual Matters.
Multilingualism:
Baker, Colin. 2006. Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Multilingual
Matters.
Herdina, Philip and Ulrike Jessner. 2002. A Dynamic Model of Multilingualism: Perspectives
of Change in Psycholinguistics. Multilingual Matters.
Jessner, Ulrike. 2006. Linguistic Awareness in Multilinguals: English as a Third Language.
Edinburgh UP.
Sociolinguistics:
Trudgill, Peter. 2001. Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society (4th ed.).
Penguin.
Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. 2009. The New Sociolinguistics Reader. Palgrave
Macmillan.
Varieties of English:
Bauer, Laurie. 2002. Introduction to International Varieties of English. Edinburgh UP.
Trudgill, Peter and Jean Hannah. 2002. International English. A Guide to the Varieties of
Standard English (4th ed.). Arnold.
Psycholinguistics:
Aitchison, Jane. 2007. The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics (5th
ed.). Taylor & Francis.