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How Language Works

how babies babble, words change meaning, and languages live or die

by David Crystal

2006 500 pages eng ★ 4.2 (4 ratings)

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." Language is so fundamental to everyday life that we take it for granted. But as David Crystal makes clear in this work of unprec…

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