Borbala Ritcher. First Steps in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

he idea for this book goes back about ten years, to my first impression of higher education in English in Hungary, when I felt that the discrepancy between the standards of the excellent textbooks available and the needs of the local target audience were subtly at odds. Both the academic English used and the assumptions about prior subject knowledge seemed to me conducive to dampening rather than stimulating the interest of a significant proportion of the readers. So when it became possible to apply for a grant to write a book for the new Bachelor of Arts programme in English, it occurred to me that here was the op- portunity to fill the perceived gap with a genuinely introductory linguistics textbook written in accessible English, presuming no prior knowledge of linguistics and aimed at ‘passing on the flame’, the passionate interest in their area of expertise of the writers. It filled me with gratification to find that the consortium distributing the HEFOP grants and the colleagues I asked to collaborate agreed.

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