by Donna Jo Napoli · OUP USA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780195160482
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«Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language» is Donna Jo Napoli's linguistics essay, in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Starting from everyday questions —whether ebonics is a dialect or bad English, whether men and women speak differently, whether machines will learn human language—, Napoli examines myths and stereotypes about speech. With common sense and no technical jargon, she encourages rethinking entrenched beliefs and reaches surprising and provocative conclusions.
Published by Oxford University Press, USA, in 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aimed at curious readers and linguistics students who want to approach language without prior technical knowledge.
Donna Jo Napoli is an American linguist and writer of children's and young adult fiction. She is a professor at Swarthmore College teaching linguistics, including its relationship to such subjects as Comparative Literature Studies, music, dance, and theater. She has previously taught at Smith College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Georgetown University, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and the University of Pennsylvania.
