Dreyer (no affiliations listed) has edited this volume on emerging trends in language and linguistic studies for researchers and practitioners who need to keep abreast of the latest findings in the field. Expert contributors discuss such topics as the importance of proverbs in cultural knowledge and language change, the need for explicit inferential statistics in the study of linguistics and the impact of online learning materials on learning perceptions. The relationship between text difficulty on reading comprehension tests and cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies is also analyzed. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)