The 5-Minute Linguist - 3rd Edition by Caroline Myrick & Walt Wolfram (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The 5-Minute Linguist provides a lively, reader-friendly introduction to the subject of language suitable for the general reader and beginning students.The third edition adds new topics now at the forefront of linguistics and updates others.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>The 5-Minute Linguist</i> provides a lively, reader-friendly introduction to the subject of language suitable for the general reader and beginning students. The book offers brief essays on more than 60 intriguing questions such as What's the difference between a language and a dialect? Can animals understand us? What causes foreign accents? and How is language used on social media? These are conveniently organized into 12 topical areas that include What is Linguistics, Language and Thought, Language and Society, and Language and Technology, among others. Each essay is written by a leading authority in the specialization who offers succinct, insightful answers to questions that most of us have wondered about, with follow-up references to more in-depth reading on each question. The third edition adds new topics now at the forefront of linguistics and updates others, serving as an unrivaled introduction to the mysteries and intrigue of language. The third edition of this book was produced under the sponsorship of the Linguistic Society of America.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The book contains many strengths, one of which is providing readers with more than a purely superficial knowledge about linguistics, and doing so in very short chapters that avoid highly technical language. . . . Another praiseworthy feature of the book is the extensive range of subfields within the discipline of linguistics included in the volume. The breadth of topics touched on provides readers with a realistic picture of the scope of linguistics. . . . In sum, The Five-Minute Linguist is a very solid work, one which sets out to achieve a very worthy goal and indisputably succeeds in that effort." --Gitterman, Martin R., LINGUIST List 31.1619, 5/14/2020<br>
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