How Language Works
How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die
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Penguin Books Ltd
UK
2007
Paperback
400
Standard
216347
978-0-14-101552-1
0-14-101552-7
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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 shows not just how old we are but where we’re from and even who we want to be.
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