Marina Yaguello is Professor and Chair of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Paris &-Denis Diderot. She has been Visiting Professor in London and in Dakar and has lectured all over North America, Europe, and in many African countries. She has written nine other books about language and linguistics, including Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary languages and their inventors (Athlone Press). She specializes in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface.

• Preface: Why Through a Looking Glass? ; Introduction: So, You are a Linguist... ; 1. What Language is For ; 2. The Tower of Babel ; 3. Pink Elephants ; 4. The Canny Canner ; 5. Anti-dis-establish-ment-arian-ism ; 6. Did You Say Pig or Fig? ; 7. Words as Signs ; 8. A Rose By Any Other Name ; 9. The Incredible Lightness of Meaning ; 10. The House that Jack Built ; 11. Green Ideas ; 12. Murdering Time ; 13. The Miser and the Prodigal Son ; 14. Tweedledum and Tweedledee ; Conclusion

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Marina Yaguello is Professor and Chair of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Paris &-Denis Diderot. She has been Visiting Professor in London and in Dakar and has lectured all over North America, Europe, and in many African countries. She has written nine other books about language and linguistics, including Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary languages and their inventors (Athlone Press). She specializes in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface.

• Preface: Why Through a Looking Glass? ; Introduction: So, You are a Linguist... ; 1. What Language is For ; 2. The Tower of Babel ; 3. Pink Elephants ; 4. The Canny Canner ; 5. Anti-dis-establish-ment-arian-ism ; 6. Did You Say Pig or Fig? ; 7. Words as Signs ; 8. A Rose By Any Other Name ; 9. The Incredible Lightness of Meaning ; 10. The House that Jack Built ; 11. Green Ideas ; 12. Murdering Time ; 13. The Miser and the Prodigal Son ; 14. Tweedledum and Tweedledee ; Conclusion

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Marina Yaguello is Professor and Chair of Linguistics in the English Department of the University of Paris &-Denis Diderot. She has been Visiting Professor in London and in Dakar and has lectured all over North America, Europe, and in many African countries. She has written nine other books about language and linguistics, including Lunatic Lovers of Language: Imaginary languages and their inventors (Athlone Press). She specializes in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and the syntax-semantics interface.

• Preface: Why Through a Looking Glass? ; Introduction: So, You are a Linguist... ; 1. What Language is For ; 2. The Tower of Babel ; 3. Pink Elephants ; 4. The Canny Canner ; 5. Anti-dis-establish-ment-arian-ism ; 6. Did You Say Pig or Fig? ; 7. Words as Signs ; 8. A Rose By Any Other Name ; 9. The Incredible Lightness of Meaning ; 10. The House that Jack Built ; 11. Green Ideas ; 12. Murdering Time ; 13. The Miser and the Prodigal Son ; 14. Tweedledum and Tweedledee ; Conclusion

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