[Muffinz]

(Original post by Bella Occhi)
I am. Haha. Have we met?

You are only known in reference to me! /win

[Bella Occhi]

(Original post by Id and Ego seek)
Yes, fresher's blog about a degree relevant to me! Subscribed.
What books do you read for you course?

Also, which of these do you recommend: A or B?

The core textbooks that we have to have are Linguistics: An Introduction (McGregor, 2009) and The Linguistics Student's Handbook (Bauer, 2007). McGregor is fantastic, really interesting and engaging and not too dense to read through, with plenty of diagrams and relevant examples and seems to be really tailored to the course. Bauer is, I must admit, not so interesting and I haven't really read much of it - but it seems to be more for the research methods, how to write an essay/reference etc than actually on the content of the course. Still a useful book to have though.

Projects in Linguistics (Wray, Bloomer and Trott) is also a really good source and recommended to us by our tutor. It gives you ideas for projects to pursue, and then how you might go about investigating them and writing them up.

I'm afraid I haven't read either of those books Just looking at the previews on Amazon, the Radford one would appeal to me more. You should see if your local library has them or if you can find them on Google Books (etc). If you're looking for an introduction to linguistics, I'd really recommend checking out some of David Crystal's stuff - he has a very engaging and easy to understand style of writing. Book recommendations really depend on if you want to approach the subject from an analytical point of view or a point of view on how language relates to society... etc.

Are you looking at studying linguistics at Leeds? (You should, it's awesome! )

(Original post by Muffinz)
You are only known in reference to me! /win