Language - Linguistics
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Does Spelling Matter?
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This book narrates the history of English spelling from the Anglo-Saxons to the present-day. It also examines the c...
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£8.99
Language: The Cultural Tool
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Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and drawing on Everett’s pioneering research with...
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£12.99
The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt through the Lost Words of the English Language
Logophilia is, as we all know, incurable. Mark Forsyth’s first book, The Etymologicon, demonstrated that it is also highly infectious. In hi... See details
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Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary
Henry Hitchings writes:
Dictionaries are never untouched by ideology. But it can be hard to distinguish between pragmatic choices...
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of Translation
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How do we really make ourselves understood to other people? This book addresses this question. It shows how, from p...
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The Story of English in 100 Words
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Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word (‘loaf’) to advanced (&...
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You Talkin’ to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
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Rhetoric is what gives words power. It’s nothing to be afraid of. It isn’t the exclusive preserve of po...
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The Science of Language: Interviews with James McGilvray
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In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his iconoclastic and important ideas concern...
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£19.95
This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics
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Semiotics is the theory of signs, and reading signs is a part of everyday life: from road signs that point to a des...
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The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages
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In the twenty-first century, can we really take the dominance of English for granted? This title explores the rise ...
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From Elvish to Klingon: Exploring Invented Languages
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This fascinating book takes invented languages and explores the origins, purpose, and usage of these curious artefa...
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The Language Wars: A History of Proper English
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What really is correctness? Why do people care so much about it? What is at stake in the quarrel about good and bad...
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The Lore of the Playground: The Children’s World – Then and Now
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From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting ‘one potato, two potato’ and &lsqu...
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