Language and Reality presents selected writings of Professor Sydney M. Lamb, including six new works and several which have been re-written for publication here. Professor Lamb's work in linguistics over the past four decades has been concerned with exposing illusions about language and with finding realities behind the linguistic abstractions that others have dwelt upon. Although he is a leading figure in linguistic science, many of the papers included here are far from well known, some of them unavailable to the wider linguistic community. The book includes papers offering insight into the man behind this pioneering approach to doing linguistics that might best be summed up as 'linguistics to the beat of a different drummer'. It explores the theoretical origins of Lamb's ideas about language that have often been described as ahead of their time and includes more recent writings outlining work done in Neurocognitive Linguistics.