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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      21 November 1996
      ISBN:
      9781139164085
      9780521574754
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139164085
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      Dimensions:
      (198 x 129 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.178kg, 156 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Life Sciences, Cognitive Psychology, English Language and Linguistics: General Interest, Language and Linguistics
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    Language is like a vast spider's web. In this volume Jean Aitchison explores the different facets of this web. She begins with the cobweb of false worries which surrounds language. She then discusses how language evolved in the human species, how children acquire it, and how educated English speakers remember 50,000 or more words. Finally, she argues that people are right to be concerned about language, though not in the ways traditionally assumed. This is the text of the 1996 BBC Reith lectures, slightly revised for publication, with illustrations and full references, and an afterword which looks at the reception of the lectures.

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