About this title
A trade book by an applied linguist that explains 100 everyday questions about how language works, written for a general readership without prior linguistics background. Topics span persuasion, gender and language, media, child language development, second language learning and language disorders.
Intended audience
- general readers
- students new to linguistics
- communication professionals
Subject classification
- Linguistics
- Popular Science
- Communication
Scope
- everyday persuasion and rhetoric
- gender and language
- media and political language
- child language development
- literacy and second language learning
- language disorders such as aphasia and dementia
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Language Power: 100 Things You Need to Know to Make Language Work for You
- Year
- 2023
- Publisher
- Lioncrest Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781961953000
- Catalogue authors
- Norbert Schmitt