Language - Linguistics
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Eats, Shoots and Leaves
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‘If Lynne Truss were Roman Catholic I’d nominate her for sainthood.’ Frank McCourt
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Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language
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Presenting a tour of English from its mongrel origins to its status as the world’s most-spoken tongue; its ap...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage: The Classic First Edition
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In this new edition of Fowler’s original Dictionary of Modern English Usage, leading expert David Crystal off...
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Stringlopedia
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Gathers together various strands on string (and it’s ‘big brother’ rope) to weave an overview of ...
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How to Write Effective Business English: The Essential Toolkit for Composing Powerful Letters, Emails and More, for Today’s Business Needs
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Gives guidance to both native and non-native English writers on how to create clear messages and understand how Eng...
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The Illustrated Dictionary of Signs and Symbols: With a Visual Directory of 1000 Picture Codes
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An authoritative analysis of the way signs and symbols have been interpreted and represented through thousands of ...
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Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
In the 1970s Daniel Everett moved his young family to the Amazon jungle, hoping to help a remote Amerindian tribe find God. As a missionary he was ... See details
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The Routledge Companion to Semiotics
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Offers an introduction to semiotics, presenting essays from a range of international leaders in the field. Featurin...
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English
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Journey into the history of English and discover how words have been absorbed into our language to make it what it ...
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Wordcrime: Solving Crime Through Forensic Linguistics
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Suitable for those interested in true crime, modern criminology and also where language meets the law, this title b...
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The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English
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Takes the reader on a world-wide trip like no other – from Singapore to Japan, Oxford to Los Angeles, through...
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In Praise of the Garrulous
From his vantage point on the Isle of Lewis at the north-western edge of the European continent, Allan Cameron, a poet and translator, presents a p... See details
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When Languages Die
K. David Harrison, a linguist specialising in the Turkic languages of Siberia, examines what it is that we lose when a language dies, and why it ma... See details