Voices in my Head by Terence Moore is an accessible and moving selection of sonnets, villanelles and lyrics charting one man's experience of living and loving, of hiding and revealing self, of communicating and not, of ageing and nudging up to death. Terence Moore was brought up in Horsham. After two years as a miner, he read English at Trinity College, Cambridge. After graduating he became an apprentice bookbinder then taught English to speakers of other languages at Baroness Wangenheim's school in Oxford. In his thirties he read linguistics for a Ph.D. at UCLA, where the focus was on...

American ed. issued under title: Language understanding.

This book explores the relation between language and our senses and emotions, taking readers into domains as diverse as wine-tasting, marriage guidance counselling, medical training and face recognition. The authors suggest that language is capable of both confusing and clarifying.