The five-minute linguist - bite-sized essays on language and languages
- Robert Rodman
- E.M. Rickerson
- Barry Hilton
- Bret Lovejoy
- Paul Chapin
- M. Paul Lewis
- G. Tucker Childs
- Allan R. Bomhard
- Nicholas Ostler
- John M. Lipski
- Peter T. Daniels
- Joan Bybee
- Mark C. Baker
- Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
- Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek
- Donna Jo Napoli
- Henk Haarmann
- Geoffrey K. Pullum
- Dennis R. Preston
- Orin Hargraves
- Paul B. Garrett
- Dora Johnson
- Richard Hudson
- Walt Wolfram
- Susan Curtiss
- Leila Monaghan
- Christopher Moseley
- Akira Y. Yamamoto
- Marcellino Berardo
- Tracy Hirata-Edds
- Mary S. Linn
- Lizette Peter
- Gloria Sly
- Tracy Williams
- Kimiko Y. Yamamoto
- Peter Ladefoged
- Steven H. Weinberger
- Katherine Sprang
- Nina Garrett
- June K. Phillips
- Sheri Spaine Long
- Gladys C. Lipton
- Sue E.K. Otto
- David Goldberg
- Catherine Ingold
- Maria Carreira
- Robyn Holman
- Nancy P. Nenno
- Elizabeth Martinez-Gibson
- Frederick H. Jackson
- Erin McKean
- Kevin Hendzel
- David Savignac
- Amelia C. Murdoch
- John Alego
- Marianne Mithun
- Frank Morris
- Dennis Looney
- Ana Maria Carvalho
- Benjamin Rifkin
- Pardee Lowe
- Neil G. Jacobs
- Jerry Lampe
- Donald Osborn
- Blaine Erickson
- Vijay Gambhir
- Arika Okrent
- John McWhorter
Fra forlagets omtale: "The five-minute linguist" provides a lively introduction to the subject of language, suitable for beginning students and the general reader. Originating as a series of popular five-minutes radio broadcasts, the book offers brief essays on a wide range of fascinating questions about language such as: What is the difference between dialects and languages? Does language influence the way we think? Do languages have to change?