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This book raises the issue of what a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively. It leads teachers to awareness of the language throug

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

How do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? To what do words having referential significance refer? What is the meani

With examples of conversation, this book is a lively account of social and intellectual import of everyday talk about language.

Background to the problem -- The Rubicon -- Language as miracle -- Language and natural selection -- The mental prerequisites -- Thinking without language -- Mi