by Jesús Tusón Valls · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475964294
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«El llenguatge» is the popular linguistics essay by Jesús Tusón Valls, published by Editorial Empúries in 1996 in paperback (96 pages, in Catalan).
A brief non-technical introduction to human communication, covering the transmission of information, the structure of language, the world's linguistic diversity, why languages change, the relationship between language and culture, and the origin and evolution of writing, around what constitutes us as human beings.
Colección Biblioteca Universal Empúries. The author, a linguistics professor at the Universitat de Barcelona, also published El luxe del llenguatge and Mal de llengües.
For students and readers without prior training who want a first approach to language and linguistics.
