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1 Baby-Talk 1
2 From Cries to Words 6
3 Learning How to Understand 14
4 Making Vibrations 21
5 Pronouncing Sounds 28
6 Discovering Grammar 34
7 Having a Conversation 40
8 Learning to Read and Write 45
9 Getting to Grips with Spelling 52
10 Spelling Rules and Variations 58
11 Grammar Rules and Variations 65
12 Accents and Dialects 71
13 Being Bilingual 78
14 The Languages of the World 84
15 The Origins of Speech 92
16 The Origins of Writing 98
17 Modern Writing 104
18 Sign Language 112
19 Comparing Languages 118
20 Dying Languages 125
21 Language Change 131
22 Language Variation 138
23 Language at Work 145
24 Slang 151
25 Dictionaries 157
26 Etymology 163
27 Place Names 169
28 Personal Names 176
29 The Electronic Revolution 183
30 Texting 189
31 Language at Play 195
32 Why use Language? 201
33 Language for Feelings 209
34 Political Correctness 215
35 Language in Literature 221
36 Developing a Style 227
37 The Complexity of Language 233
38 Linguistics 239
39 Applied Linguistics 244
40 Your Language World 250
Index 255
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Za Mo
reviewed A Little Book of Language on January 17, 2016
A Little Book of Language
I think the low ratings are unfair as I believe many of the reviewers do not realize this book is for young people. As a speech/language pathologist, the content was a review for me...but I also really enjoy David Crystal's books, so I picked it up to see what he would say. I found the style to be easy-breezy enough, but packed full of the "need to know" conceptual information vital to briefly understanding how language develops given real-life examples. I was seized with the wish that all teacher preparation programs would make this required reading. In this book are concepts that are so integral to learning, but those I truly believe many teachers don't realize are foundational for a student's understanding of their instruction. It is a conversational enough book to be non-threatening to one's time and effort (I finished it in an afternoon) and would increase the understanding and empathy among educators of the many variables (and potential road-blocks) to children's communication which is so relied upon for participating in today's learning environments.
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Add A Little Book of Language, With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young aud, A Little Book of Language to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add A Little Book of Language, With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young aud, A Little Book of Language to your collection on WonderClub |
