Meet My Linguistics Reference Books

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Assalamu'alaikum wr.wb.
Alhamdulillah I have a kuota to post this. Today, I want to tell you about my books that related to a courses called Introduction to Linguistics. I hope you like it.

            For an collegian who is learning English especially English Education Departement, will be familiar with a course called Linguistics. A course that learn about the scientific of language, which is one of the compulsory courses you must take in the college. In order to learn linguistics, we not only get the topics or the materials from our lecturer but we must have some books to support us when learning Linguistics as the references. Although nowdays there is internet that we can use to search some e-books related to Linguistics, the real book is still important. Because, when we download an e-book from the internet, we are not always read it as much as read the real book.

 So, in this post, I want to tell you some books that I had. Actually, I have two books as my linguistics references, there are New Horizons in Linguistics that is written by John Lyons, and A Linguistic Primer for Malaysians which is written by Loga Mahesa Baskaran.

First, I will tell you a book that is written by John Lyons the title is New Horizons in Linguistics. Honestly, I get this book from Medan. I asked my brother who is lived in Medan to buy a book related to Linguistics. Because, in Pekanbaru is hard to find a book store that sell Linguistics books. So, my mother recommend me to find and buy a book in Medan. There are many used books stores (toko buku bekas) near University of North Sumatera.

A book that was written by John Lyons in 1970, and was published by Penguin book have 368 pages that consists of some topics related to Linguistics, such as Phonology, Generative Syntax, Semantics, Generative Grammar and Stylistic Analysis, Sociolinguistics, etc. In my opinion, it’s hard to understand this book because there are many vocabulary that I don’t know. Also, this book looks so boring. The design can’t interest us to read it, evethough the content is good. It could be said that this book similar with a journal.

As the second semester collegian of English Education Department who is don’t know what Linguistics exactly learn about, it is a little bit hard to understand this book. Then, there are some topics that consist in this book willn’t explain in the course. Because, in the second semester we only learn about the introduction to linguistics. So, we don’t learn linguistics specifically.  Also, there is something that make me confused about this book. On each topic in this book, there is a name of an expert and the name of university. So maybe, John Lyons just combine some journals and books into one book.

The another book titled A Linguistic Primer for Malaysians which is written by Loga Mahesa Baskaran in 2005. Honestly, I borrowed my senior’s book to help me create my last post. This book is a copy of my lecturer’s book, Mr. Budianto Hamuddin, M.Esl. Thankyou, Sir.

In my opinion, this book is totally explain the basic of Linguistics. The topics in this book also show us that this book just explain the basic or the introduction of Linguistics. A book that consist of 185 pages is having a good layout, so we interested to read it. The layout that looks like a usual textbooks (seperti buku pelajaran pada umumnya), help us to understand Linguistics easily.

This book explaining the pure linguistics and also some of applied linguistics, such as Sociolinguistics, and Psycholinguistics of course just the introduction of each topics. Also, the way this book explains each topic is easier to understand than the first book. So, in my opinion, this book is appropriate for us who want to learn the basic or the introduction of Linguistics.

So, here is the comparison from those books :

	A Linguistics Primer for Malaysians	New Horizons in Linguistics
Language	Mudah dipahami. Kata-kata tidak terlalu sulit	Sulit dipahami. Menggunakan bahasa ilmiah yang agak sulit dipahami pembaca esp. students
Content	Sesuai dengan kebutuhan student who is learn the introduction to linguistics	Pembahasannya terlalu mendalam, kurang cocok digunakan oleh student yang masih learn the introduction to linguistics
Design	Sama seperti buku pelajaran biasanya, tidak membuat bosan karena diselingi gambar-gambar	Terlihat membosankan, terlalu monoton, karena hanya ada tulisan saja. Layout (tata letak)nya juga tidak menarik

That’s my text book that I used when learning Linguistics in my second semester. I hope this post give you some informations that you need. Each books have a diference character, so we have to understand the content of it.

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Assalamu'alaikum wr. wb.