An entertaining and accessible guide for students taking an undergraduate course in discourse analysis or sociolinguistics. This is a book that will give students some useful 'hands-on' experience of
The book discloses some basic misconceptions about language that can be identified both with lay usage and within professional linguistics. The book supports and elaborates on a minority view in ling
Do you usually think you are being understood? Do you think you really understand others? Have you, as many have, become so accustomed to confusion that you don't recognize it except when it is extre
