Napoli Donna Jo, Lee-Schoenfeld Vera. Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

Second Edition. — Oxford University Press, 2010. — 256 p.Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day.
This thoroughly revised second edition updates the book with a new co-author, and includes new chapters on language and power, language extinction, and what it is linguists actually do. Language Matters is sure to engage both general readers and students of language and linguistics at any level.