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How You Say It

How You Say It

By Katherine Kinzler

Why You Talk the Way You Do—and What It Says About You. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020.

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14 Key insights

A brief summary of How You Say It

An insightful look at the relationship between the way we speak and our identities, social lives, and the world we live in—highlighting the often–overlooked linguistic biases that perpetuate inequality and the inspirational ways that language can connect us.

Key insights in How You Say It

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What do you get from this book? An eye-opening view of the ways we are defined—and define others—through language
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We often overlook the importance of language in social life; how we talk matters in profound ways
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As languages constantly evolve, our ways of speaking define us and reveal who we aspire to be
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Children have a remarkable ability to learn language and adapt to different linguistic environments
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Linguistic differences can be deeply divisive, as some ways of speaking are deemed more valuable than others
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Discrimination based on how people speak has damaging effects, and communication is always a two–way street
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Our tendency to differentiate between social groups was ingrained through evolution, and language is a particularly deep-seated form of difference
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Children are taught that some ways of speaking are better than others and that linguistic bias is perfectly acceptable
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Biases against nonstandard ways of speaking can have serious consequences—in the courtroom, classroom, and nearly everywhere else
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The myth that children should only learn one language has been debunked; raising children bilingual is not only possible but beneficial
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We must use the power of language to bring people together rather than divide them
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Final word

Who should read How You Say It

Linguistics students • social scientists • bilingual and multilingual people • language nerds • people learning a second language

About the author of How You Say It

Katherine D. Kinzler is a social and developmental psychologist and professor at the University of Chicago; she has a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Kinzler researches the relationship between discrimination, language, and social groups. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and she was named one of fifty scientists under forty by the World Economic Forum.

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