{"id":24174,"count":5,"description":"We have a range of interviews covering books on linguistics. Daniel L Everett, Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley University chooses his best books on language and thought<\/a>. He argues that all language has a basis in culture, and explains how Chomsky<\/a> is like Freud<\/a>: crucial, but crucially wrong. Among his choices are Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech<\/em><\/a> by Edward Sapir, Language in Relation to a Unified Theory of the Structure of Human Behaviour<\/em><\/a> by Kenneth Pike and Making it Explicit: Reasoning, Representing & Discursive Commitment<\/em><\/a> by Robert Brandom.\r\n\r\nLane Greene, columnist on language and linguistics for the Economist<\/em>, chooses his best books on language and the mind<\/a>. He discusses the extent to which languages do and do not affect the way people actually think about things. He chooses, among others,\u00a0 Through the Language Glass<\/em><\/a> by Guy Deutscher, The Language Instinct<\/em><\/a> by Stephen Pinker and The Genius of Language<\/em><\/a>, edited by Wendy Lessen.\r\n\r\nThe author Henry Hitchings, who specialises in language and cultural history thinks the globalisation of English is not a matter of concern for lovers of the language. He chooses Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World<\/em><\/a> by Nicholas Ostler, Mother Tongues<\/em><\/a> by Helena Drysdale, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature<\/em><\/a> by Stephen Pinker, History in English Words<\/em><\/a> by Owen Barfield and A Mouthful of Air<\/em><\/a> by Anthony Burgess.","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/language\/linguistics\/","name":"Linguistics","slug":"linguistics","taxonomy":"category","parent":11189,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/11189"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=24174"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=24174"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=24174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}