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In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk show not just how old we are but where we’re from and even who we want to be.
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David Crystal is Honorary Professor of Linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has published over ninety books, most recently The Stories of English, and is the editor of The Penguin Encyclopaedia. In 1995, he was awarded the OBE for services to the English language. He lives in Holyhead, Anglesey.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book provides easy going summaries of everything to do with language. Students of linguistics will find it useful as it contains a background to all the usual things included in a linguistics degree from phonology to the origins of language. Invaluable.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Really good book, bought it for a language module and it has lots of really good easy to read stuff...good value for money and good condition...thanks
Format:Kindle Edition
There is no good reason for this to be more expensive on Kindle than as a paperback, even with the VAT, So there is another potential customer lost.
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For what it is.
David Crystal describes the his preface the the what this book is. It is a collection of short essays, very clearly written, on 73 topic mostly headed "How.... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jomes Spence
The perfect one-volume introduction to the study of language
Why do languages die? How are they born? How do we make speech sounds? How do we write? All these questions and many more are asked and answered in this fascinating book by one of... Read more
Published 4 months ago by P. Smith
What is the point of this book?
Anyone expecting to find what the blurb says on this book is in for a big disappointment. There is nothing new, no opinions to chew over just a very rushed synopsis of everything... Read more
Published on 28 April 2006 by Adelaide
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