McIntyre Dan, Jeffries Lesley, Evans Matt, Price Hazel, Gold Erica. The Babel Lexicon of Language

Cambridge University Press, 2022. — 337 p.Welcome to the Wonderful World of Linguistics!
Do you know the difference between an accent and a dialect? Are you unsure what uptalk is? Have you ever pondered how we produce speech? Perhaps you’re confused by creole or perplexed by the passive. If so, then this book is for you. The Babel Lexicon of Language is aimed at new linguists and non-linguists and explains over 500 of the most commonly used terms in language study. We hope it will be useful to anyone with an interest in language. If you’re studying language at school or college, then it will be of direct benefit in helping you to understand some of the specialist terms used in language study.
Perhaps because most people can speak, write or sign, almost everyone has an opinion about language. But often these opinions are based on mistaken beliefs or half-remembered facts from school. If you really want to know about language, then you need the discipline of linguistics. In fact, the first word you should look up in this book is linguistics. Then linguist. Linguists study language in the same way that chemists study the composition of matter, and biologists study living organisms. And, like any other academic discipline, linguistics comes with its own specialist terminology. This book will help you to get to grips with it.