Foreword to the third edition 1. Language … language everywhere 2. Making up words 3. The grammar habit 4. Language day-to-day 5. Language your way: how language varies 6. Language on the move 7. Language in the brain 8. Language and computers 9. Language attitudes References Index of languages Index of topics
Biography
Andreea S. Calude is an Associate Professor in Linguistics at the University of Waikato, in New Zealand. She is the author of Questions about Language (Routledge, 2019, edited with Laurie Bauer), Mysteries of English Grammar (Routledge, 2020, written with Laurie Bauer), and The Linguistics of Social Media (Routledge, 2023). Her work has been funded by several Royal Society Marsden Fund grants and she is a TedEd educator (Does Grammar Matter?, seen by more than 2.5 million viewers) as well as a TedX speaker (Our changing digital language, recorded in November 2025).
