Here's a great review of my book which covers all the main points and explains why it's a good read! https://medium.com/@info_60370/if-you...

I wrote the book as a way of making language more visible -- for we swim in a sea of speech (and writing), mostly without even noticing it. That's fine for our day-to-day lives -- like the air, we don't need to know how it keeps us alive. But language is more complex than air, and has much more complicated consequences. The world is riven by tribal divisions, a tendency that is unfortunately back on the rise again -- just when we most need to come together. SPEECH! explores the reasons why language drives that process, and how we can free ourselves from the fantasies of exceptionalism it inevitably fosters...