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Category: Linguistics

September 7, 2021

Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It’s Not What You Say but How You Say It, by Jane Setter

Review by Liz Dexter I would like the message of this chapter to be that we should all be more tolerant of people’s voice…

June 4, 2021

Fifty Sounds by Polly Barton

Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Why country X? Why language Y? Anyone who has lived abroad or taken up a foreign language will be familiar…

December 15, 2020

Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell

Reviewed by Liz Dexter I greatly enjoyed reading Nancy Campbell’s meditation on the icy places of the world, The Library of Ice. last year,…

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April 21, 2020

Let’s Talk: How English Conversation Works by David Crystal

Review by Liz Dexter “What makes a successful conversation?” is a question David Crystal considers asking people in his new book – and, well,…

John Gallagher Learning Languages
February 5, 2020

Learning Languages in Early Modern England by John Gallagher

Review by Liz Dexter Has it ever struck you that before England obtained its empire, no one else in the world bothered to speak…

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September 17, 2019

Futurekind: Design by and for the People by Robert Phillips

Review by Liz Dexter Robert Phillips is a senior tutor on the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art, as well as…

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November 2, 2017

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

Review by Peter Reason When our postman handed me the package that contained my review copy of The Lost Words I blurted out, “I’ve…

Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing : Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet
September 28, 2017

Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing : Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet

Reviewed by Liz Dexter You may remember Tammet from his autism memoir, Born on a Blue Day, and his fascination with words and languages as…

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