Linguistics
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Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words
$32.95 Add to cartA beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words–and the many facets of how language begins and ends–from a pioneering language writer.
With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselve- Author: Erard, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049422
- Language: English
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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
$20.00 Add to cartFrom 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
- Author: Perlin, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0802164196
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
$12.00 Read moreLiterary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past
- Author: Tenen, Dennis Yi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1324105054
- Language: English
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The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, Updated Edition: Your One-Stop Source for Mastering English Grammar
$13.99 Add to cartMaster the art of English grammar with this updated edition of the bestselling guide, The Only Grammar Book You’ll Ever Need, featuring fresh examples and quizzes to test your knowledge, making it an … [more below]
- Author: Thurman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1507223684
- Language: English
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Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words
$28.00 Add to cartWith his trademark humor and flair, bestselling linguist John McWhorter busts the myths and shares the history of the most controversial language topic of our times: pronouns
The nature of language is- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0593713281
- Language: English
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Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English
$24.95 Add to cartA spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms–for good or ill
The British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America–from French fries to Awes- Author: Yagoda, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0691262292
- Language: English
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Linguistics for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartThe fascinating, fun, and friendly way to understand the science behind human language
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics students study how languages are constructed,
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Dechaine, Rose-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 1118091698
- Language: English
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Write English with Tengwar: A Workbook for English General Use
$9.99 Add to cartWant to write like an elf, but not learn a language? Then this book is for you
Welcome to General Use Tengwar, a mode Tolkien developed for using his Elven letters to write English. He used it to writ
- Series: Write Like an Elf #1
- Author: Jallings, Fiona Albini
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: February 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1087864151
- Language: English
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What School Leaders Need to Know about English Learners
$62.27 Add to cartSchool leaders have the unique opportunity and responsibility to play a crucial role in creating a culture of high expectations and an environment of support so that English learners can succeed and c… [more below]
- Author: Dormer, Jan Edwards
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: September 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1942799845
- Language: English
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Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition
$18.99 Add to cartIn an era when communication has become increasingly diverse and complex, this classic work on semantics–now fully revised and updated–distills the relationship between language and those who use it
- Author: Hayakawa, S. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0156482401
- Language: English
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Practice Makes Perfect: English Vocabulary for Beginning ESL Learners, Premium Fourth Edition
$18.00 Add to cartThe go-to guide for learning and reinforcing American English vocabulary for beginning ESL learners–now enhanced with audio recordings through the McGraw Hill Language Lab app
Now enhanced with audi- Author: Yates, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1264264224
- Language: English
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Gullah Culture in America
$19.95 Add to cartA history of the rich culture of the Gullah people-a story of upheaval, endurance, and survival in the Lowcountry of the American South.
Gullah Culture in America chronicles the history and culture of
- Author: Crawford, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1949467961
- Language: English
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
$18.99 Add to cart“An essay in origins … as theoretical as Hawking and Gorst in trying to see into the deep past. McWhorter is a clear and witty writer.”– Harper’s
In the first book written for the layperson about th
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2003
- ISBN10: 006052085X
- Language: English
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Learning a New Language for Dummies
$19.99 Add to cartStrategies, tools, and motivation for learning a new language
Learning A New Language For Dummies explains how you can create a personal plan to achieve your language learning goals. Get research-base
- Author: Cabrera-Puche, Maria J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1394249918
- Language: English
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Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSociolinguistics deals with the social life of language, language in its sociocultural context. It is a branch of linguistics that looks less at the shape or sound of words–morphology or phonology–a… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Edwards, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0199858616
- Language: English
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Chineasy: The New Way to Read Chinese
$26.99 Read moreLearn to read and write Chinese with Chineasy–a groundbreaking approach that transforms key Chinese characters into pictograms for easy recall and comprehension.
Chinese is one of the oldest written l
- Author: Hsueh, Shaolan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0062332090
- Language: English
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Caught’ya! Grammar with a Giggle for Middle School: Giggles in the Middle
$24.95 Add to cartJane Bell Kiester, author of the popular Caught’ya Grammar with a Giggle series, has adapted her effective and fun approach to meet the specific learning needs of middle-school students. This resourc… [more below]
- Series: Maupin House
- Author: Kiester, Jane Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0929895886
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
$17.00 Add to cartA survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say “I am reading a catalog” instead of “I read a catalog”? Why do we say “do” at- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1592404944
- Language: English
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
$21.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editor’s Choice
The debate is ages old: Where does language come from? Is it an art
An Economist Best Book of 2010
A Financial Times Best Book of 2010
A Library Journal Best Book of 2010- Author: Deutscher, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610491
- Language: English
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Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists
$32.95 Read moreA fascinating examination of how we are both played by language and made by language: the science underlying the bugs and features of humankind’s greatest invention.
Language is said to be humankind’s- Author: Enfield, N. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 026204661X
- Language: English
