Cover art for You are What You Speak
Published
Black Inc., October 2011
ISBN
9781863955416
Format
Softcover, 336 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.5cm

You are What You Speak Grammar Grouches, Language Laws and the Power of Words by

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Travel with Greene on a rollicking world tour that shows the role language beliefs play in shaping our identities, for good and ill. From the Tower of Babel to Atatürk's banning of Arabic script, he charts how language 'experts' moved from myth-making to rule-making and from building cohesive communities to building modern nations.

This enthralling book reveals that our arguments about language may relate to something else entirely, and illuminates the rewards of being flexible with our words. You Are What You Speak will certainly get people talking.

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