THE use of textbooks for teaching in the classroom has its pros and cons and its advantages and disadvantages are often debated. At a higher level, books can only be recommended rather than mandated ...

Did you see that great documentary on linguistics the other night? What about that terrific series on Radio 4 about the Indo-European language family tree? Or that news report on language extinction?

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...