How Language Works

How Language Works
Author :
Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 715
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780141911731
ISBN-13 : 0141911735
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Book Synopsis How Language Works by : David Crystal

Download or read book How Language Works written by David Crystal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


How Language Works Related Books

Language! Live:
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Louisa Cook Moats
Categories: Composition (Language arts)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

How Language Works
Language: en
Pages: 715
Authors: David Crystal
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-29 - Publisher: Penguin UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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
Long Live Latin
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Nicola Gardini
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-12 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A lively exploration of the joys of a not-so-dead language From the acclaimed novelist and Oxford professor Nicola Gardini, a personal and passionate look at th
I Live Here!
Language: en
Pages: 26
Authors: Gladys Rosa-Mendoza
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-01 - Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Mark introduces the reader to the areas in which we live. He does this by introducing the reader to the concepts of cities, states, countries, and continents.
Ecolinguistics
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Arran Stibbe
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-01 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The increasingly rapid destruction of the ecological systems that support life is calling into question some of the fundamental stories that we live by: stories