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The Language Imperative: How Learning Languages Can Enrich Your Life
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A culture is the sum of all the things that make up the way a group of people live their lives: how they dress, work, eat, study, raise children, respond to illness.

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  • Title The Language Imperative: How Learning Languages Can Enrich Your Life
  • Author Suzette Haden Elgin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Paperback
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, Cambridge, MA
  • Date 2000-12-28
  • ISBN 9780738204284 / 0738204285
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 6.04 x 0.72 in (23.06 x 15.34 x 1.83 cm)
  • Reading level 1290
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.44

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Suzette Haden Elgin received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. A specialist in applied psycholinguistics, she is the author of the best-selling Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series, which consists of thirteen books and two audio programs. She is also the founder and director of the Ozark Center for Language Studies.
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