Goodbye Chomsky, and Other Essays on Language
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781645759553
Subjects: Language and languages
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Section 1: Language Death.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Title Page; title: About the Author; title: Dedication; title: Copyright Information ©; title: Acknowledgment; title: Preface; title: Foreword; title: Introduction; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 1 Linguistics Lite; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 2 Language Myths; title: Language Myth 'Test'; title: Chapter 3 Language, Behavior, Thought, and Reality: The Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 4 Invented Languages; title: Twin Languages; title: Section 1: Lingua Francas.; title: Section 2: International Auxiliary Languages (I.A.L.S.).; title: Section 3: Invented Languages in Film and Television.; title: Section 4: Twin Language.; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 5** **Elvish and the Tongues of Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien's "Secret Vice"; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 6 Language and Gender; title: Section 1: Gender Differences in Japanese.; title: Section 2: Gender Differences in English.; title: Section 5: A Biological Basis for Gender Differences in Language?; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 7 Dialect Versus Standard: The Case of African-American Vernacular English; title: Section 1: Standard Language and Dialect.; title: Section 2: African-American Vernacular English.; title: Section 3: Origins of A.A.V.E.; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 8 History of English: Highlights; title: Section 1: The Beginnings.; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 9 English As the World's Language; title: It remains to be seen whether Prince Charles is right-that what he called 'English English' will be the variant of English that prevails in this century. If I were a betting man, I would have to place my money on American English. We're the ones making all these loud movies and mindless T.V. shows that everybody from Siberia to Antarctica can't seem to get enough of. When European pop singers want to sing in English, which they all want to do (bigger audience, bigger money, think A.B.B.A.), it's; title: Section 0: Some Numbers to Think About.; title: Table 1: Top 15 Languages by Number of Speakers; title: Table 2: Top International Languages (With Official Status); title: Table 3: Top Ten Foreign-Language Enrollments in U.S.A. Colleges and Universities (2002); title: Table 4: The World's Ten Most Influential Languages; title: Section 1: The Legacy of the British Empire.; title: Section 2: American Influence Expansion of English and American influence; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 10 British Versus "American": Noah Webster; title: Section 1: Spelling and Spelling Reform; title: Section 2: Pronunciation; title: Section 3: Americanisms; title: Additional Suggested Reading; title: Chapter 11 Language Death; title: Acknowledgement