Language - Linguistics
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Biting the Wax Tadpole: Misadventures of an Armchair Linguist
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Brings you the best bizarre quirks of the ways people communicate around the globe. The author wades through innume...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
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Analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and reveals what this can tell us about ourselves. This book...
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By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English
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A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the Englis...
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
Michael Newton writes: In 21 brief chapters, the book recalls and explicates moments of linguistic remembrance and forgetting. Among them: F... See details
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Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004
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In the first comprehensive survey of the politics of language in Ireland in the colonial and post-colonial period, ...
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Narrative, Perception, Language and Faith
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Many, from a wide range of disciplines, claim that narrative is fundamental to being human. This engaging book pres...
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Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol
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Presents an history of the rise and fall of the English accent as a badge of cultural, social, and class identity. ...
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The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?
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Popular assumptions about gender and communication – famously summed up in the title of the massively influen...
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Words on Fire: The Unfinished Story of Yiddish
Yiddish, in the words of Menke Katz, whose poem forms the epigraph for this book, is ‘unpolished as a wound’ and ‘the bare curse thrown against the... See details
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How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die
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Features a survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work. This work also talks about eyebrow...
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Now You Know: The Book of Answers (Vol. 4)
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Presents questions such as: why do we say that someone who has been treated badly has been ‘hung out to dry&r...
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The Unfolding of Language
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Presents an investigation into the evolution of language. This book exposes the elusive forces of creation at work ...
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Semiotics: The Basics
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Provides an introduction to the key concepts of semiotics. This edition presents examples including computer and mo...
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English: Meaning and Culture
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Points out that language and culture are not just interconnected, but inseparable. This work uses research to inves...
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