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Language Made Plain by Anthony Burgess is a brief overview of the field of linguistics.

Contents of Book

Without dealing specifically with any one language, it provides an introduction to semantics, phonetics, and the development of language.

Later Book

Burgess later incorporated most of Language Made Plain into the first half of the book A Mouthful of Air.

Burgess, Anthony (December 1964). Language Made Plain. Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. ISBN 0-340-04770-4.

v t e Works by Anthony Burgess
Novels	The Long Day Wanes Time for a Tiger The Enemy in the Blanket Beds in the East The Right to an Answer The Doctor Is Sick The Worm and the Ring Devil of a State One Hand Clapping A Clockwork Orange The Wanting Seed Honey for the Bears Inside Mr Enderby The Eve of Saint Venus Nothing Like the Sun A Vision of Battlements Tremor of Intent Enderby Outside M/F Napoleon Symphony The Clockwork Testament Beard's Roman Women ABBA ABBA 1985 Man of Nazareth Earthly Powers The End of the World News Enderby's Dark Lady The Kingdom of the Wicked The Pianoplayers Any Old Iron Mozart and the Wolf Gang A Dead Man in Deptford Byrne
Short story collections	The Devil's Mode
Poetry	Moses: A Narrative Revolutionary Sonnets
Essays	An Essay on Censorship Homage to Qwert Yuiop One Man's Chorus
Critical works	Shakespeare Joysprick Ninety-Nine Novels Language Made Plain A Mouthful of Air
Operettas	Blooms of Dublin
Symphonies	Sinfoni Melayu
Autobiography	Little Wilson and Big God You've Had Your Time