20 razones para amar la lingüística

The third volume of the 20 reasons collection focuses on linguistics and the power of language in our daily lives. Lorena Pérez Hernández offers us a surprising and accessible journey through twenty chapters that invites us to look at language with new eyes and understand how it influences what we think, feel and decide. ¿Puede una palabra reducir el dolor? Does language condition our memory, our creativity or our way of reasoning? Why does Putin use such large tables to receive other leaders? This book is not only dissemination: it is also a defense of the humanities as useful, interdisciplinary knowledge with a future. With references to artificial intelligence, marketing, psychology and popular culture, it shows that words not only describe the world, but transform it. Aimed at young readers, teachers, university students, translators and communication professionals, 20 Reasons to Love Linguistics is a fascinating journey into the secrets of language… and what it means to be human.