Sociolinguistics
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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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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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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
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
$26.99 Add to cart“As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.” —Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy
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- Author: Montell, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 28 2019
- ISBN10: 006286887X
- Language: English
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Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires
$18.00 Read moreA SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR
“Masterly and brilliant”–Simon Sebag Montefiore “A book of vast scope and stunning insight.”–Anthony Sattin, Spectator “Commanding erudition and a swashbu- Author: Mackintosh-Smith, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0300251637
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$24.00 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1632062267
- Language: English
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English After Rp: Standard British Pronunciation Today
$29.99 Add to cartThis book concisely describes ways in which today’s standard British English speech differs from the upper-class accent of the last century, Received Pronunciation, which many now find old-fashioned o… [more below]
- Author: Lindsey, Geoff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: March 07 2019
- ISBN10: 3030043568
- Language: English
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How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-On-One Language Learning
$18.00 Add to cartAmid worldwide accounts of dying languages, author Leanne Hinton and a group of dedicated language activists are doing something about it: they have created a master-apprentice language program, a one
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1890771422
- Language: English
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Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language
$16.99 Add to cartWith the release of the census figures in 2000, Latino America wasanointed the future driving force of American culture. The emergence of Spanglish as a form of communication is one of the more influe
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0060087765
- Language: English
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
$18.99 Add to cartThe author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking,
- Author: Wolf, Maryanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 27, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062388770
- Language: English
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Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English
$30.00 Read more“With easygoing authority… [Fridland] offers context, and a welcoming spirit, to the many contentious realignments in our language.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Smart and funny–I loved it!” –Mignon- Author: Fridland, Valerie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0593298322
- Language: English
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
$30.00 Add to cart“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see– or, in this case, hear–the whole world differently.” –Megan Angelo, author of Followers
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the s
- Author: Montell, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0062993151
- Language: English
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Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares about Words
$29.00 Add to cartA kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English, from linguist and veteran professor Anne Cur
- Author: Curzan, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593444094
- Language: English
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
$18.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestseller now in paperback. One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in order to understand what imbues cu
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593421388
- Language: English
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
$21.99 Add to cart“As funny as it is informative, this book will have you laughing out loud while you contemplate the revolutionary power of words.” —Camille Perri, author of The Assistants and When Katie Met Cassidy
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- Author: Montell, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062868888
- Language: English
