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LANGUAGE, BANANAS AND BONOBOS
LINGUISTIC PROBLEMS, PUZZLES AND POLEMICS |
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Neil Smith |
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Paperback |
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£34.95 |
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ISBN 10: |
0631228721 |
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9780631228721 |
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Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
Pub. date: |
29 November, 2001 |
Pages: |
160 |
Description: |
This collection of humorous and accessible essays presents a series of engaging reflections on linguistic concerns, including: how people who are deaf and blind can communicate; what makes Woody Allen funny; the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees; and political correctness. |
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How can people who are both blind and deaf communicate? What makes Woody Allen funny? Is it normal to hear colors and see sounds? If questions like these have puzzled you, this book of essays on the nature of language will quench your curiosity. Language pervades every aspect of life. It is essential to everyone everywhere - from politicians to poets, philosophers to pharmacists - yet linguistics is often forbidding. This collection of short, accessible essays changes that. Language, Bananas, and Bonobos presents a series of engaging reflections on concerns such as our knowledge and use of language, political correctness, and the linguistic abilities of chimpanzees. In doing so, the volume provides new insights into this subject of universal interest. |
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1 |
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UK |
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Blackwell Publishers |
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