linguistics book review

New book: Grammar Matters: The Social Significance of How We Use Language

Tweet Jila Ghomeshi writes about many aspects of language from a social and historical point of view.  We have a tendency, for example, to judge as unintelligent those people who don’t use language in the same way we do. Ghomeshi helps us understand why this is an unproductive way to evaluate others.  She writes of […]