Linguistics
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The Story of French
$32.00 Add to cartWhy does everything sound better if it’s said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at on
- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0312341849
- Language: English
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Bringing Our Languages Home: Language Revitalization for Families
$27.00 Add to cartThroughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a … [more below]
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 159714200X
- Language: English
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Tefl Lesson Plans for Dummies
$22.99 Add to cartInstant English lessons – learn in a flash
TEFL Lesson Plans For Dummies is a ready-made course manual for TEFL teachers. With fully fleshed-out lessons, activities, tools, games, and resources, this
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Maxom, Michelle M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1118764277
- Language: English
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
$16.95 Add to cartNoam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist
- Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0231175973
- Language: English
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The A to Z of Grandparent Names: From Abba to Zumu
$16.95 Read moreLearn the cultural significance behind the traditional and unique names for grandparents all over the world with The A to Z of Grandparent Names.
Grandma and grandpa, babushka and dedushka, oma and opa
- Author: Hankinson, Katie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646433807
- Language: English
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The Logic of Sense
$26.95 Add to cartConsidered one of the most important works of one of France’s foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonder
- Series: European Perspectives
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: June 10 1993
- ISBN10: 0231059833
- Language: English
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Sentence Diagramming 101: Fun with Linguistics (and Movies)
$32.99 Add to cart“A surprisingly fun jaunt into the convoluted wilds of the English language!”
Sentence Diagramming 101: Fun with Linguistics (and Movies) explores the relationship between words using traditional sen… [more below]- Author: Paquette, Jen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1644505959
- Language: English
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A Date with Language
$40.00 Read moreA collection of 366 facts about language to enliven each day of the year.
In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events, and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1851246118
- Language: English
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
$27.99 Add to cartWhat’s the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What’s the correct pronunciation of … [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2000
- ISBN10: 0195135083
- Language: English
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Speechwriting in Theory and Practice
$37.99 Add to cartThis book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting. The combination of theory and practice with ca… [more below]
- Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
- Author: Kjeldsen, Jens E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 3030036847
- Language: English
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Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day
$14.95 Read moreDo your sentences run longer than a page? Or do they hang in the air, waiting for a subject, an object or some punctuation to finish them off?
This easy-to-use guide to sentence writing not only teach- Series: Better English
- Author: Campbell, Dianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 1995
- ISBN10: 1564142035
- Language: English
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Ingles Completo
$18.99 Add to cartStudents of English whose first language is Spanish will find this book ideal for study and test preparation. Following an introductory chapter that offers study advice and tips on correct English pro… [more below]
- Series: Barron’s Foreign Language Guides
- Author: Kendris, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1438010494
- Language: English
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Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
$21.99 Add to cartHow language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton–long a leading authority in this field–shows how and why previous attempts to solve that proble
- Author: Bickerton, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0809016478
- Language: English
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention
$22.99 Add to cartBlending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language
Lang- Author: Deutscher, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080120
- Language: English
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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
$29.95 Add to cartIn recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identifi
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0807176966
- Language: English
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A Field Manual of Acoustic Phonetics
$37.95 Add to cartThis book provides a practical and easy-to-understand introduction to acoustic speech analysis, primarily aimed at those involved in linguistic analysis and description in the field and at those prepa… [more below]
- Author: Baart, Joan L. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: May 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1556712324
- Language: English
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English for Writing Research Papers
$37.99 Add to cartAt least two-thirds of published scientific papers are written by researchers whose first language is not English
20% of the comments referees make when reviewing papers for possible publication in in… [more below]- Series: English for Academic Research
- Author: Wallwork, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 3031310713
- Language: English
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Sibilance: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartThe word “sibilance” refers to pronunciations of the letter “s,” including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts
- Author: Van Doren, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180181
- Language: English
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Fifty Words for Snow
$16.95 Read more“A delightful compendium that brings together language, culture and adventure through frozen landscapes as it shares the meanings behind 50 words for snow, gathered from around the globe.” —The Heral… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1783966033
- Language: English
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
$27.95 Read moreJust as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Individuals can forget words, phrases, even entire languages, and over the course of time speaking communities, too, let go of the tongues that were
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951501
- Language: English
