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Jean Aitchison




Her main areas of interest include
  • Socio-historical linguistics

  • Language and mind

  • Language and the media


Her main published books include
  • ''New Media Language'' (edited with Diana M. Lewis). London and New York.: Routledge.


  • ''Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon''. 3rd edition (1st edition 1987). Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell, 2003.


  • ''Language Change: Progress or Decay?'' 3rd edition (1st edition 1981). Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press , 2001.


  • ''The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics''. 4th edition (1st edition 1976). London and New York: Routledge, 1998.


  • ''The language Web: The Power and Problem of Words''. 1996 BBC Reith lectures. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press , 1997.


  • ''The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution''. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Also, with new extended introduction, in C.U.P. Canto series, 2000.)