What Language Is And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

Name: What Language Is And What It Isn't and What It Could Be
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ISBN: 9781592407200

ISBN-10: 159240720X

ISBN-13: 9781592407200

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Authors: John McWhorter

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A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct grammarAn eye-opening tour for all language lovers, What Language Is offers a fascinating new perspective on the way humans communicate. from vanishing languages spoken by a few hundred people to major tongues like Chinese, and with copious revelations about the hodgepodge nature of English, John McWhorter shows readers how to see and hear languages as a linguist does.Packed with big ideas about language alongside wonderful trivia, What Language Is explains how languages across the globe (the Queen's English and Suriname creoles alike) originate, evolve, multiply, and divide. Raising provocative…

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List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/7/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.23" wide x 7.95" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Introduction



Languages are Ingrown



Language is Dissheveled



Language is Intricate



Language is Oral



Language is Mixed


Epilogue: This View of Language


Notes on Sources


Acknowledgments


Index