language: Bibliography

See L. Bloomfield, Language (1933); E. Sapir, Language (1921, repr. 1949); S. I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action (5th ed. 1990); H. Giles and N. Coupland, Language: Contexts and Consequences (1991); T. W. Deacon, The Symbolic Species (1997); N. M. and R. Dauenhauer, Endangered Languages (1998); S. Pinker, Words and Rules (1999).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Related Articles
• Variations in Language
• Comparative Linguistics
• The Basis of Language
• Speech Communities
• Bibliography

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