Are Twitter, Facebook, IM’s etc. the beginning of the end of the art of written language? Are they yet another example of the supposed lack of well-roundedness attributed to Gen X and Y’ers? Or is it inevitable that American English is heading, kicking and screaming, into a new era of change? Should or will English [...]
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Product DescriptionThis unique book provides an introductory overview of modern theoretical linguistics which manages to be both accessible and humorous without sacrificing either scholarship of insight. In a series of magisterial vignettes Smith emphasizes the perennial necessity of appealing to linguistic theory if we are to gain any real understanding of the phenomena of language. [...]
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