About this title: Crystal offers general readers a personal tour of the intricate workings of language in this work of unprecedented scope. He discusses the power of language by looking at its origins, exploring how children learn to speak, and revealing how conversation works.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Hardcover
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781585678488ISBN:1585678481
Description: As New in As New dust jacket. 1585678481. 1.6 x 8.9 x 6.2 Inches; 512 pages; A parrot uncomprehendingly rattles off a string of words learned by rote. And we marvel! Yet we seem to take our own astonishing linguistic powers for granted—the ability to speak, listen, and understand, to read and write. We all understand why language works—we have to communicate to survive—and now David Crystal, the world authority on language, shows us how. How are languages born? How does conversation work? How ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avery Trade
Date Published: 2007-11-01
ISBN-13:9781583332917ISBN:158333291X
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Overlook Press, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781585678488ISBN:1585678481
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Overlook Press 2006
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780739482896ISBN:0739482890
Description: ISBN 9780739482896. Trade Paperback. Very good condition, with slight browning to edges of interior pages. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Avery Pub Group
Date Published: 2007-11-01
ISBN-13:9781583332917ISBN:158333291X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avery
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781583332917ISBN:158333291X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780141015521ISBN:0141015527
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 512 pages. (400 pages) features a survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work. this work also talks 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. yes (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Overlook Pr
Date Published: 2006-11-16
ISBN-13:9781585678488ISBN:1585678481
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"There's so much information in this book that it's difficult to absorb it all, let alone recall it a few days after the fact. To a language enthusiast like me, it was fascinating; I could see how many or perhaps most readers might get bored. Some chapters are much more interesting than others: I'm not that jazzed about the explanation of how we physically produce a uvular fricative, but I love the discussions of how humans learn language and about common features that all languages share. Crystal really does write it as though it were a "how to" manual, but I don't think it's less valuable in that respect than it is as a sheer comprehensive discussion of many aspects of linguistics."
"This was a great book on the basics of the study of Linguistics. I felt it was written in laymen's terms and therefore easily followed, but I'm not sure that's because I'm familiar with the jargon since I majored in it or not. But I love all things language and I felt that David Crystal does a great job of this."
"I havent read this book from cover to cover. It is really not a book that centers around a thesis or idea but instead works more like a reference book on language/linguistics. I have referred back to this book on topics about linguistics which were not my strength and even read a few excerpts on topics that I didnt know anything about. A good primary reference book on language/linguistics"
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