The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages.
In this revised and expanded second edition, Macaulay brings the book up to date with the last d.
Macaulay Uses jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and examples to introduce readers to the full range of current linguistic knowledge, covering in 35 chapters, topics like Language acquisition, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, dialects, conversation, narrative, swearing, and many others.
The Social Art is an engagingly written, highly accessible tour through the world of languages