{"product_id":"language-myths-isbn-9780140260236","title":"Language Myths","description":"A unique collection of original essays by 21 of the world's leading linguists. The topics discussed focus on some of the most popular myths about language: The Media Are Ruining English; Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Anymore; America is Ruining the English Language. The tone is lively and entertaining throughout and there are cartoons from Doonesbury andThe Wizard of Id to illustrate some of the points. The book should have a wide readership not only amongst students who want to read leading linguists writing about popular misconceptions but also amongst the large number of people who enjoy reading about language in general.A Note on the Contributors\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMyth 1: The Meanings of Words Should Not be Allowed to Vary or Change: Peter Trudgill\u003cbr\u003eMyth 2: Some Languages Are Just Not Good Enough: Ray Harlow\u003cbr\u003eMyth 3: The Media Are Ruining English: Jean Aitchison\u003cbr\u003eMyth 4: French is a Logical Language: Anthony Lodge\u003cbr\u003eMyth 5: English Spelling is Kattastroffik: Edward Carney\u003cbr\u003eMyth 6: Women Talk Too Much: Janet Holmes\u003cbr\u003eMyth 7: Some Languages Are Harder than Others: Lars-Gunnar Andersson\u003cbr\u003eMyth 8: Children Can't Speak or Write Properly Any More: James Milroy\u003cbr\u003eMyth 9: In the Appalachians They Speak like Shakespeare: Michael Montgomery\u003cbr\u003eMyth 10: Some Languages Have No Grammar: Winifred Bauer\u003cbr\u003eMyth 11: Italian is Beautiful, German is Ugly: Howard Giles and Nancy Niedzielski\u003cbr\u003eMyth 12: Bad Grammar is Slovenly: Leslie Milroy\u003cbr\u003eMyth 13: Black Children are Verbally Deprived: Walt Wolfram\u003cbr\u003eMyth 14: Double Negatives Are Illogical: Jenny Cheshire\u003cbr\u003eMyth 15: TV Makes People Sound the Same: J. K. Chambers\u003cbr\u003eMyth 16: You Shouldn't Say \"It Is Me\" because \"Me\" is Accusative: Laurie Bauer\u003cbr\u003eMyth 17: They Speak Really Bad English Down South and in New York City: Dennis R. Preston\u003cbr\u003eMyth 18: Some Languages Are Spoken More Quickly than Others: Peter Roach\u003cbr\u003eMyth 19: Aborigines Speak a Primitive Lanugage: Nicholas Evans\u003cbr\u003eMyth 20: Everyone Has an Accent Except Me: John H. Esling\u003cbr\u003eMyth 21: America is Ruining the English Language: John Algeo\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003ePeter Trudgill and Laurie Bauer are both respected linguists. Trudgill has written many books for Penguin (including Sociolinguistics which has sold 130,000 copies since it was first published in 1974). Other contributors include Jean Aitchison (Professor of Language at Oxford), Lars Gunnar-Andersson (co-author of Bad Language with Trudgill) and Janet Holmes (Women, Men and Politeness, 1995, Longman). Peter Trudgill lives in Lausanne (and sometimes Norwich.) Laurie Bauer lives in New Zealand.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305324597477,"sku":"NP9780140260236","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140260236.jpg?v=1767731107","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/language-myths-isbn-9780140260236","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}