Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
Donna Jo Napoli, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
ISBN: | 9780199889921 |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Published: | 9 June, 2010 |
Format: | eBook |
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Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language
Donna Jo Napoli, Vera Lee-Schoenfeld
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 of our most deeply held ideas about the nature of
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