Goodbye Chomsky and Other Essays on Language

<p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;text-align:justify;'><span style=color:black;background:white;>The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;text-align:justify;'><span style=color:black;background:white;>This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists—not people who speak several languages but academic linguists (</span><span style=color:black;background:white;>for</span><span style=color:black;background:white;> whom linguistics is the scientific study of language). Though this book is informed by linguistics</span><span style=color:black;background:white;></span><span style=color:black;background:white;> it is not a linguistics book rather a language-not-linguistics book. It is a book about topics involving language that interest me and that I hope will be interesting to the intellectually curious reader.</span></p><p style='margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:8.0pt;margin-left:0cm;font-size:16px;font-family:Times New Romanserif;text-align:justify;'><span style=color:black;background:white;>Its topics include J.R.R. Tolkien</span><span style=color:black;background:white;>’</span><span style=color:black;background:white;>s languages of Middle-earth invented and artificial languages language</span><span style=color:black;background:white;> and</span><span style=color:black;background:white;> </span><span style=color:black;background:white;>gender dialects American versus British (Noah Webster) the Whorf-Sapir Hypothesis African-American </span><span style=color:black;background:white;>v</span><span style=color:black;background:white;>ernacular English the history of English English as the world</span><span style=color:black;background:white;>’</span><span style=color:black;background:white;>s language language death the rebirth of Hebrew in Israel the Yiddish language language in India language and nationalism DNA and the origins of language the dilemma of the postcolonial writer and more.</span></p><p><br><br></p>