This email (title above) popped up in my inbox when I was working on that last post. Seems that, unlike Borders, Alibris knows how to seduce me. And one of the books they suggested actually looked interesting: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by Professor David Crystal, "a stimulating and richly illustrated guide to the variety, structure, history and theory of language. David Crystal not only conveys the intrinsic fascination of the subject, but also its enormous complexity."Stimulating. Richly illustrated. A subject of intrinsic fascination and enormous complexity.
Oh Alibris, you tease.
Well, that's more like it.
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ReplyDeleteI remember this book. I randomly swept it off a shelf once and spent minimum an hour looking at it. One article I still think about regularly and it probably makes me a better teacher.
Imagine that, Th. This is the first I've heard of it, but you make me want to look it up now.
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ReplyDeleteAnd look at that: my library has a copy on the shelf. I think I hear it calling...
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