“…For the first time, "The Future of Language" brings together three of Professor David Crystal's most popular lectures on the future of language. …”

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“…It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives, it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing (as in 'self-pity'). David Punter here engages with a wealth of theoretical ideas to explore the literature of pity, including Freud, Derrida, Levinas and others. …”