Author: David Crystal
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 27950

Media: Hardcover
Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 1

ISBN: 0141015527
EAN: 9780141015521
ASIN: 0141015527

Publication Date: March 29, 2007
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Good All Rounder May 30, 2007
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

This book provides easy going summaries of everything to do with language. Students of linguistics will find it useful as it contains a background to all the usual things included in a linguistics degree from phonology to the origins of language. Invaluable.

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What is the point of this book? April 28, 2006
14 out of 38 found this review helpful

Anyone expecting to find what the blurb says on this book is in for a big disappointment. There is nothing new, no opinions to chew over just a very rushed synopsis of everything that has to do with language. Anyone who has reached adulthood will know 90% of what this book contains anyway. A good 20% of the book is made up of a listing of world languages - no interesting detail just a listing.

Professor Crystal also holds the very odd view that language evolved 30,000 years ago some 30,000 years after man reached Australia. So how did that happen?

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