Things You Should Know About Language

"Things You Should Know About Language" explains how human language works, develops, changes, and connects people across societies.

Presented through more than 300 questions and answers, the book examines spoken and signed languages, speech sounds, words, grammar, sentence structure, meaning, writing systems, language families, dialects, multilingualism, language learning, and the relationship between language and the brain.

Readers will also learn how languages change across generations, why accents and dialects develop, how children acquire language, how writing systems differ, why some languages become endangered, and how linguists study languages around the world.

Designed for readers interested in language and linguistics, this book offers a broad introduction to one of the defining features of human communication.