What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be by John McWhorter

What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

John McWhorter

228 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

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A provocative look at how languages originate, divide, multiply, and work.Most of our assumptions about language are wrong. Language is not pure. Language is not only words. Language is not divided into real languages and "dialects". Language is n...

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