Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language

by Donna Jo Napoli

Book Overview

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 harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out in this short and thoroughly readable volume, many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199735719
• ISBN13: 9780199735716
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 6.8"