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| Title | New Book: The Five-Minute Linguist |
| Body | From http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=210 The Five-Minute Linguist: Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages, edited by E. M. Rickerson and Barry Hilton. This collection takes a new approach to making accurate and up-to-date knowledge about language accessible in a non-academic way. It consists of 60 short chapters adapted from the weekly scripts of a National Public Radio series on language in celebration of the Year of Languages. The scripts, contributed by a cross-section of leading professional linguists in America and abroad, address questions like “How many languages are there in the world?” “Is elementary school too early to teach foreign languages?” and “How good is machine translation?” They are written with a light touch that has been highly successful in reaching an audience of intelligent non-specialists. The book preserves that light touch while adding such features as an index (to help readers connect topics touched on in more than one chapter) and suggestions for follow-up reading. For more information, visit http://www.equinoxpub.com/books/showbook.asp?bkid=210 |
| Source | Equinox Publishing |
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