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A new approach to language problems is the main theme of Robert A. Hall, Jr.'s revolutionary discussion in LINGUISTICS AND YOUR LANGUAGE. For the first time in a book intended for the general reader, the science of linguistics and its results are brought to bear on everyday problems of language: correctness, spelling, foreign language study, international languages, linguistic nationalism.Novel, often iconoclastic, always stimulating, LINGUISTICS AND YOUR LANGUAGE presents a new conception of language, infinitely varied in its forms, yet systematic in its structure, and always changing and developing. Professor Hall shows, in a series of provocative chapters, how our outworn prejudices about language block our understanding of its true nature, distort our views of correct speech and orthography, and waste years of every child's school life."The most nearly successful effort so far to present the matter and principles of linguistics in a form in which it can be understood and applied by the intelligent layman."Raven I. McDavid, Jr., in American Speech
ISBN:0385094671
