Linguistics
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the Mind
$22.99 Add to cartImagine a village where everyone “speaks” sign language. Just such a village — an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness — is at the heart of Talking Hands: Wha… [more below]
- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743247132
- Language: English
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Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
$32.00 Add to cartWhether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning — a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your voca… [more below]
- Author: Bergen, Benjamin K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028292
- Language: English
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Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor’s me
- Author: Wallace, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0231151578
- Language: English
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Languages: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Read moreHow many languages are there? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Anderson, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199590591
- Language: English
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On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues
$50.00 Read moreIn a groundbreaking project turned into a national touring exhibition, endangered-language speaker, poet, and photojournalist B. A. Van Sise worked with endangered language speakers, learners, and rev… [more below]
- Author: Van Sise, B. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0764368141
- Language: English
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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
$14.99 Add to cartThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It’s where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unce… [more below]
- Author: Zafarris, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1399808214
- Language: English
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The Art of Writing: Lu Chi’s Wen Fu
$16.00 Add to cartWritten in the third century, this is one of the earliest Chinese works about the use of language, preceded only by the Ta Hsueh (Great Learning) of Confucius. Written by Lu Chi, a soldier-poet, the W
- Author: Lu Chi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571314121
- Language: English
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Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
$18.99 Add to cartA delightfully offbeat history of the art and science of sentence diagramming by a veteran copyeditor and writer. Grumpy grammarians, crossword-puzzle aficionados, and lovers of language will apprecia… [more below]
- Author: Florey, Kitty Burns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0156034433
- Language: English
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Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them
$14.99 Add to cartFilled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0064610446
- Language: English
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A Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingualism
$19.95 Add to cartIn this accessible guide to bilingualism, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This new edition includes more information on bilingualis… [more below]
- Series: Parents’ and Teachers’ Guides #18
- Author: Baker, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1783091592
- Language: English
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Dear Fellow Time-Binder: Letters on General Semantics
$12.00 Add to cartThis is a series of short summaries and brief overviews of
many main ideas within general semantics, all couched in the style of
personal letters. It is designed to give people an intimate view into
many
- Author: Mayer, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1970164166
- Language: English
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From Lying to Perjury: Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods
$27.99 Add to cartThis volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie … [more below]
- Series: Foundations in Language and Law [fll] #3
- Author: Horn, Laurence R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 419
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 3111356884
- Language: English
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New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking
$71.50 Add to cartNew Directions Second edition is a thematic reading and writing-skills text for advanced learners that bridges the gap between ESL and college writing courses. New Directions is a thematic reading/wri… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Academic Writing Collection
- Author: Gardner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0521541727
- Language: English
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Machine Translation
$40.00 Read moreA concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.
The dream of a universal translatio
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Poibeau, Thierry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534215
- Language: English
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Revised and Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartSeth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Ler… [more below]
- Author: Lerer, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0231174470
- Language: English
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The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing
$18.99 Add to cart“A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it’s imposs
- Author: Flaherty, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0061689157
- Language: English
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Contact Languages and Music
$55.00 Add to cartLanguage and music are connected in many
ways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined in
multiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined to
express distinct an… [more below]- Author: Hollington, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 9766409234
- Language: English
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Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes: A Companion to Wheelock’s Latin and Other Introductory Textbooks
$21.99 Add to cartFrom one of the country’s leading Latinists, this reader is the perfect complement to any Latin program, and the first collection of entirely authentic classical Latin texts that beginning students, f
- Author: LaFleur, Richard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0061259187
- Language: English
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr’s Fresh Air
$16.99 Add to cartThis engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America’s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and
- Author: Nunberg, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0618116036
- Language: English
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartFor anyone who enjoys reading memoirs–or is thinking about writing one–this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.
The … [more below]
- Author: Baker, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0395901502
- Language: English
