Linguistics
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
$26.99 Add to cartAn NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancie
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist‘s 2011 Books of the Year- Author: Bellos, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0865478767
- Language: English
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Beautiful Words: A Celebration for Word Lovers
$19.99 Add to cartExplore the beauty and intrigue of the English language through this collection of the most fascinating words in the dictionary.
Close your eyes for a moment and think of the word “solitude”. What do y
- Author: Cider Mill Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1951511549
- Language: English
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The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu
$15.95 Add to cartWhy do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how
- Author: Jurafsky, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351629
- Language: English
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Birds and Other Plays
$11.95 Add to cartThis new verse translation of Aristophanes’ comedies offers one of the world’s great comic dramatists in a form that is both historically faithful and theatrically vigorous. Aristophanes’ plays were p… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristophanes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199555672
- Language: English
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Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas
$45.27 Add to cartEnglish language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time. In Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Ar
- Author: Haynes, Judie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: February 05 2010
- ISBN10: 1416609121
- Language: English
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Beyond Repeat After Me: Teaching Pronunciation to English Learners
$75.02 Add to cartThis engaging text clearly presents essential concepts that teachers need to guide their students toward clearly intelligible pronunciation and more effective communication skills. Based on a sound th… [more below]
- Author: Yoshida, Marla Tritch
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 26 2016
- ISBN10: 1942799462
- Language: English
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The Language Hoax
$16.98 Add to cartJapanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does langu… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2016
- ISBN10: 190468890
- Language: English
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Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide
$19.95 Add to cartThis insightful, practical book can be used as a stand-alone guide for families on their language journey, or as an accompaniment to the author’s successful seminars for families and schools. Learn fr
- Author: Crisfield, Eowyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: January 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1788929330
- Language: English
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On Language: Chomsky’s Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume
$39.67 Add to cartThe two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume–an ideal introduction to his work.
On Language features some of Noam Chomsky’s most informal and highly accessible work. In- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 269
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844750
- Language: English
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The Story of Spanish
$21.00 Add to cartThe authors of The Story of French are back with a new linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe.
Just how did a dialect spoken by a handful of shepherds in Northern- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1250049040
- Language: English
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme–And Other Oddities of the English Language
$23.99 Add to cartMaybe you’ve been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily business done, or you’re an expert with a red pen who neve… [more below]
- Author: Okrent, Arika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0197539408
- Language: English
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Basic Phonics Skills, Level D: EMC 3321
$29.99 Read moreThis comprehensive phonics resource includes printables for phonemic awareness, decoding consonant and vowel sounds, syllabication, and more!
Basic Phonics Skills, Level D (Grades 2-3) features 242 re
- Series: Evan-Moor
- Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1557999694
- Language: English
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Tales From the Word Guy: What Your English Teacher Never Taught You
$24.99 Add to cartTales from the Word Guy is a collection of essays adapted from the author’s segments on CBC Radio One’s North by Northwest. Jonathan Berkowitz takes the reader on a delightful journey through the hist… [more below]
- Author: Berkowitz, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: July 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1039149367
- Language: English
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Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic
$16.99 Add to cart“If I have learned anything in ten years of formal debating, it is that arguments are no different: without a good understanding of the rules and tactics, you are likely to do poorly and be beaten.”—… [more below]
- Author: Withey, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1623157102
- Language: English
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Rhetoric: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartRhetoric was once an essential part of western education. Aristotle wrote an important treatise on it and Demosthenes remains famous to this day for his skills as a rhetorician. But skill with rhetori… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Toye, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199651361
- Language: English
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Irony and Sarcasm
$15.95 Add to cartA biography of two troublesome words.
Isn’t it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I’m just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most misused, misapplied, and misunderstood words in o
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Kreuz, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: February 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0262538261
- Language: English
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Naming and Necessity
$59.92 Add to cart- Author: Kripke, Saul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0631128018
- Language: English
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Speaking American: How Y’All, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
$17.99 Read moreFrom the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightful exploration of American language.
Did you know that … [more below]
- Author: Katz, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0358359937
- Language: English
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The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions: Discover the True Stories Behind the English Language’s 64 Most Popular Idioms (Etymology Book, His
$17.95 Add to cartThe Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origin stories behind the English language’s most common sayings!
Nobody thinks twice about
- Series: Illustrated Histories
- Author: McGuire, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1732512604
- Language: English
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
$17.95 Add to cartIn Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
“Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture
- Author: Rickford, John Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0471399574
- Language: English
