Linguistics for Beginners : Basic Concepts

Tariq Rahman is HEC Distinguished National Professor, Professor Emeritus and former Director, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
He has an MA, MLitt, and PhD from British universities.
He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a guest speaker in several American universities, and has also been a Guest Professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.
Dr Rahman has published 18 books and over 93 articles in scholarly journals. One of his books, Language and Politics in Pakistan (OUP, 1996) was winner of two awards given by the Government of Pakistan. His other books include: From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History (OUP, 2011), Denizens of Alien World: A Study of Education, Inequality, and Polarization in Pakistan (OUP, 2004), Poems of Autumn (2004), Language, Ideology, and Power: Language Learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India (OUP, 2002), Selected Short Stories (2002), Unpleasant Essays, Education and Politics in Pakistan (2000), and Language, Education, and Culture (OUP, 1999).