| Description |
182 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
A Spectrum book ; S-312 |
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Spectrum book ; S-312
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| Contents |
Language: why you act like a human being -- Language as educated breath -- Language as answer to a need: naming -- Language as economy: grammar -- Language as the finding of minds: words -- Language to stretch brains with: etymology -- LAnguage to stretch brains with: application -- Language to work with: borrowing, affixing -- Language to play with, including slang: language learning -- Language working in its own way: dialects -- Language as fashion: usage -- Language, the mother of tools -- Language as growht: literature, rhetoric, learning, professions, business -- Language as god -- Language and the future |
| Subject |
English language -- Dialects.
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English language.
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| LC no. |
73015654 |
| ISBN |
0139769692 (paperback) |
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0139769773 |
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