This mission plays itself out in each chapter.
'Stollznow is an author with a mission, and that mission is to debunk. This engaging, one-of a kind, book deserves very wide readership.' - Elizabeth Loftus, University of California, US But readers will soon grasp that while language does have power, it isn't particularly magical or mysterious. Here the accomplished linguist, Karen Stollznow, persuasively and forcefully dramatizes how language has many real world powers that might seem mysterious, as when a brain injury causes someone to switch from one language to another. 'Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic could not be more timely.
Karen Stollznow ably and engagingly debunks the nonsense and superstitions, and in doing so enhances, rather than diminishes, our appreciation of this wondrous human ability.' - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, US, and author of The Language Instinct and The Sense of Style
'Language, with its uncanny ability to transmit ideas from mind to mind, has always seemed to have magical powers.
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