This exciting and challenging volume draws together David Evans's many years' experience as an educator and scholar. He argues that language is a form of rationality that is shaped by multiple cultural contexts. His thesis is defended with erudition supported by many fascinating illustrations taken from different languages.

Kevin Williams, Institute of Education, Dublin City University, Ireland

In this invaluable, ground-breaking book, David Evans embarks upon an ambitious journey of reconciliation. He successfully brings together seemingly incompatible factions, identifies their strengths, and explores the commonalities in their diversity. He then constructs a vision for harmonious and symbiotic co-existence that has great potential for the field of linguistics.

Robert Adamson, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China