The World of Worlds : A Language Reader
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
- 471 p.
The essays in this collection describe, illustrate, and dramatize the interplay between language and life from various personal historical, social and cultural perspectives. The readings in this book envelop a wide variety of human activities. The Word of Words explores many of the speech communities and is provided with examples and a great deal of evidences. It is divided into 6 sections: * the personal response to language, * words and history, * language and social forces, * slang, jargon and argot, * language in culture, * language and literature.