Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language

by Donna Jo Napoli

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Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out in this short and thoroughly readable volume, many...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0199735719

ISBN13:9780199735716

Release Date:July 2010

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.0" x 6.8"

Related Subjects

Communication & Journalism Communication & Media Studies Education & Reference England Europe Foreign Language Study & Reference History Humanities Language Arts Linguistics

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