Little Histories: A Little Book of Language (Paperback)

from dtw42

A word of warning: this book is intended for teen readers! Nothing in the cover design, blurb or typographic treatment (regular 11/13½ pt Minion) gives this away. (At least, not in my Yale UP first hardback edition - perhaps later editions will fix this.) Having read a number of professor Cr...

from justininlondon

As this is aimed at young readers, it's difficult to judge it as an adult. There was nothing much here new for me, but it's readable and I imagine it might be helpful in engaging the younger reader into thinking more about language.

from elenchus

A quick, pleasant survey of major contours in linguistics: comparative grammar, physiology of human speech, development of language in infants, language families, evolution of spelling & speaking languages, and the like. Of the 50 or so chapters, few if any are longer than 4 pages, and each ends ...

from CassieLM

There was interesting and good information in this book. If I'd never read anything else about linguistics and/or language, it probably would have been really good. However, the writing style made me feel like I was being talked down to, and I would have really preferred a deeper look at a lot of...