Language Matters

Name: Language Matters
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ISBN: 9781403936288

ISBN-10: 1403936285

ISBN-13: 9781403936288

Edition: 2006

Authors: Laurie Bauer, Janet Holmes, Paul Warren, Janet Holmes

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Language Matters provides an approachable introduction to the study of language, focusing on the questions that non-specialists often ask about the subject. Taking a non-technical approach, the book explores the core areas of language study and sets out to answer fundamental questions about the origin and development of languages, the structure of languages, how language interacts with social structures and how our brains deal with language.

Book details

List price: $61.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 4/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Boxes


List of Figures


List of Tables


Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Origin and Development of Language



Where Does Language Come From?



Why Don't We All Talk the Same?



Things Ain't What They Used to Be



Linguistic Relations



Bee Talk and Monkey Chatter



Language Structures



How Do You Spell Accommodation?



How Many Words Do the Eskimos Use?



Going On and On: the Never-ending Story



Primitive Languages



Who Needs Grammar?



Mobile Messages



Language and Society



How Do We Lose Languages and Does It Matter?



What Shall I Call You?



Do Women and Men Speak Differently?



Sexist Language and Linguistic Sexism



What Language Do You Use to Your Grandmother?



Why Can't People in Birmingham Talk Right?



Language, Brain and Mind



Why My Feets Hurted?



Does Bilingualism Rot the Brain?



Building Another Tongue



You've Tasted the Whole Worm



Is Language a Strait-jacket?



When Language Breaks Down


Conclusion: Who Cares about Language?


Language Index


General Index