How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die by David Crystal

How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die

David Crystal

500 pages paperback 2006

5 editions

nonfiction science informative slow-paced
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Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's own words, How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery, and sex-or, indeed, anything at all. La...

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