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Talk on the Wild Side

Why Language Won't Do As It's Told

Lane Greene
Beginning with the ‘Case of the Missing Whom’, Lane Greene focuses on the nature of language and how it changes – not, as some would have it, through human laziness or fuzzy thinking, but because it is a robust and evolving phenomenon. Against the sticklers for grammar and logic, Greene argues that language is a human behaviour, ‘fantastically useful – and inherently flawed’.
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  • Publisher: Economist
  • Year: 2019
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240pp
  • Illustrated: No
  • Dimensions: 197x128mm
  • ISBN: 9781781258071
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.2kg
Product code:
516218
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