Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
by George Lakoff | 
The Study of Language
by George Yule | 
Thought and Language
by Lev S. Vygotsky | 
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff | 
The Articulate Mammal
by Jean Aitchison |
Language Play
by David Crystal | 
Through the Language Glass
by Guy Deutscher |
Contemporary Linguistics
by William O'Grady |
Sociolinguistics
by Peter Trudgill | 
Language Made Plain
by Anthony Burgess | 
How Language Works
by David Crystal |
Language in Society
by Suzanne Romaine | 
Language in Thought and Action
by S. I. Hayakawa |
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
by Janet Holmes | 
The Loom of Language
by Frederick Bodmer |
This is the third edition of Chomsky's outstanding collection of essays on language and mind, first published in 2006. The first six chapters, originally published in the 1960s, made a groundbreaking contribution to linguistic theory. This edition complements them with an additional chapter and a new preface, bringing Chomsky's influential approach into the twenty-first century. Chapters 1-6 present Chomsky's early work on the nature and acquisition of language as a genetically endowed, biological system (Universal Grammar), through the rules and principles of which we acquire an internalized knowledge (I-language). Over the past fifty years, this framework has sparked an explosion of inquiry into a wide range of languages, and has yielded some major theoretical questions. The final chapter revisits the key issues, reviewing the 'biolinguistic' approach that has guided Chomsky's work from its origins to the present day, and raising some novel and exciting challenges for the study of language and mind.