books on ling for non-specialists?

[Yass Shoji]

Hi,
Is this an opinion poll?
Not sure if you mean "a non-specialist but intelligent audience" by the
people like the students below, but
I'd vote for Penguin English Linguistics series like "Introducing
Linguistic". The series is supposed to be for the "students encountering
linguistics for the first time", anyway.
Yass

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> My college alumni magazine has asked me for some book titles on
> linguistics suitable for a non-specialist but intelligent audience. What
> would y'all recommend?
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