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  How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die (Paperback) By (author) David Crystal

  

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  Short Description for How Language WorksFeatures a survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work. This work also talks about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk show not just how old we are but where we're from and even who we want to be.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Published: 29 March 2007
  • Format: Paperback 512 pages
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  • Categories: Philosophy Of Language
  • ISBN 13: 9780141015521 ISBN 10: 0141015527
  • Sales rank: 78,071

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Full description for How Language Works

• In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way, we find out about eyebrow flashes, whistling languages, how parents teach their children to speak, how politeness travels across languages and how the way we talk show not just how old we are but where we're from and even who we want to be.