Introduction
The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson
E.M. Rickerson [+ ]
Consultant
E. M. Rickerson has a Ph.D from the University of California at Berkeley and is Director Emeritus of the award-winning language program at the College of Charleston (S.C.). Formerly a language program director in the U.S. government, he now consults on the development and improvement of language programs at the university level. In 2005 Dr. Rickerson created a radio series on languages (“Talkin’ About Talk”), which was broadcast on public and college radio stations -- and on which The 5 Minute Linguist was based
Description
The introduction describes the focus of the book and the way in which it is divided, as well as information about the authors of each chapter.