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 How Language Works - David Crystal
 How Language Works - David Crystal ... 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.Newest Review: ... in the parts of the book relating to anatomy of vocal organs and the brain areas responsible for processing language data. ... more ... This is, I think, forgivable, for the sake of completeness. The book is not particularly meant to be read continuously and when reading it for the first time or for the purposes of general enlighten it's perfectly possible to just note the existence of such lists without memorising or analysing the content.
I felt rather strongly that David Crystal gets more passionate the higher up in the hierarchy of language "levels" he gets. Yes, the phonology and neuroanatomy are covered, and so is basic morphology and ...more |
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How Language Works - David Crystal: From Babbling to Babel via the way of Shakespeare (965 words)
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"How Language Works" is a one-volume introduction to the science of linguistics by a British authority in the field, David Crystal. It covers all the basic and several not-so-basic aspects of mechanics of language in an accessible, succinct and often interesting way. The book is organised on three broad levels: concerned with the medium of linguistic transmission (anatomy, physics and neurology of speech; differences between various modes of language like speech, sign language, writing and electronic media), grammar (structure of words and sentences) and semantics (analysis of meaning, including social, ethnic and national differences). Language ... Read the complete review
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