New, up-dated edition of LLT - Vol 1, already sold well, with 2 new chapters, preface and revised
Both authors have published widely (esp with Routledge) - 2 of biggest names in Linguistics
Easty to read and understand; invaluable for students of Ling, Lang, Philos
Landmarks in Linguistic Thoughts Vols 2 & 3 due to be published 1998 - will complement
No directly competing texts
Roy Harris is Emeritus Professor of General Linguistics in the University of Oxford. He is the author of The Language-Makers (1980), The Language Myth (1981), The Origin of Writing (1986), The Language Machine (1987), Reading Saussure (1987), Language, Saussure and Wittgenstein (1988), Signs of Writing (1995) and Signs, Language and Communication (1996). His award-winning translation of Saussure's Course in General Linguistics was published in 1983.,
Talbot J. Taylor is L.G.T. Cooley Professor of English and Linguistics at the College of William and Mary, Virginia. He has published widely on language theory and the history of linguistic ideas. He is the author of Mutual Misunderstanding (1992) and Apes, Language and the Human Mind, with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Stuart Shanker. He and Roy Harris are Co-Editors of the journal Language & Communication.