Linguistics - Historical & Comparative
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
$19.00 Add to cartEnglish is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it–only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world’s 7.4 billion people in the… [more below]
- Author: Dorren, Gaston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0802147801
- Language: English
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Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women’s Words
$30.00 Add to cart“A fascinating look at how we talk about women. . . . Dense with information and anecdotes, Mother Tongue touches on the hilarious and the devastating, with ample dashes of an ingredient so painfully … [more below]
- Author: Nuttall, Jenni
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0593299574
- Language: English
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
$28.00 Read moreFrom the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible… [more below]
- Author: Perlin, Ross
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0802162460
- Language: English
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A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think
$27.95 Read more“An assured guide” (New Scientist) to the relationship between the language we speak and our perception of such fundamentals of experience as time, space, color, and smells.
We tend to assume that al- Author: Everett, Caleb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0674976584
- Language: English
