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The English Is Coming!: How One Language Is Sweeping the World by Leslie Dunton Downer Publisher Comments English has fast become the number one language for everything from business and science, diplomacy and education, entertainment and environmentalism to socializing and beyond—virtually any human activity unfolding on a global scale. Worldwide,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say aI am reading a cataloga instead of aI read a cataloga? Why do we say adoa at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson From Powells.com "Everything, it seems, is interesting to Bill Bryson. The marvel is that he can make it all interesting to us....Bryson's book, Mother Tongue...is the one that convinced me he could probably write informatively and with humor about anything. I mean, who... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Cambridge Studies in Oral & Literate Culture #23: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy by Brian V Street Publisher Comments An investigation into the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies.... (read more) List Price $88.95 Your price: $12.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words #8: Understanding Cultures Through Their Key Words by Anna Wierzbicka Publisher Comments This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $20.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Noam Chomsky (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives) by Wolfgang B Sperlich Publisher Comments “The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didnt betray it Id be ashamed of myself.” This declaration by Noam Chomsky exemplifies the uncompromising radicalism that has long defined his life and work. A linguist... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Perception of Speech: From Sound to Meaning by Brian Moore Publisher Comments Humans are unique in being able to convey such complex information using speech, and in the range of ideas, thoughts, and emotions that can be expressed. This crossdisciplinary book explores how the motor gestures of a speaker are transformed to sounds... (read more) List Price $113.50 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Speaking of Chinese: A Cultural History of the Chinese Language by Raymond Chang Publisher Comments Not a how-to text, this beguiling book is instead a fascinating look at Chinese language and culture. Ranging through history, literature, folklore, linguistics, and sociology, this is a breezy, straightforward primer of surprising breadth.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bastard Tongues: A Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity in the World's Lowliest Languages by Derek Bickerton Publisher Comments Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Word Structure in Ngalakgan by Brett Baker Publisher Comments Word Structure in Ngalakgan is the first major theoretical work on the phonology and morphology of an Australian language in 20 years. Ngalakgan is a non-configurational, polysynthetic, and agglutinative language of the Gunwinyguan family. The... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $29.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Language and Human Nature by Mark Halpern Publisher Comments Language and Human Nature exposes a centurys worth of flawed thinking about language, to exhibit some of the dangers it presents, and to suggest a path to recovery. It begins by examining the causes of changes in the English vocabulary. These sometimes... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $24.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English. Mark Abley by Mark Abley Publisher Comments The Prodigal Tongue takes a look at the wild, wacky and sometimes baffling road our language-English and others-is taking in its evolution. Where in the world will it end up? Mark Abley, author of Spoken Here, has created an entertaining and informative... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir Publisher Comments How do culture and language correspond? How does language work, and how do languages vary? An expert linguist and anthropologist addresses these and related issues in a highly readable examination of language within the contexts of thought, historical... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Processing French: A Psycholinguistic Perspective by Peter Golato Publisher Comments Processing French presents a groundbreaking empirical study of the processing of morphologically simple and complex French words. Peter Golato's research offers an insightful account of the lexical storage and retrieval of isolated words and words within... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Language in the Mind: An Introduction to Guillaume's Theory by Walter Hirtle Publisher Comments The work of Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960) has had an important influence on French linguistics. But his theory of psychomechanics, which views language as systematic and semiotic, is not well known in the English-speaking world. Language in the Mind is... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $56.95 Sale - Hardcover
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A Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield Publisher Comments When James Murray compiled the OED in the 19th century, he used a small army of volunteers--and thousands upon thousands of paper slips--to track down the English language. Today, linguists use massive computer power--including the world's largest... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Nature of the Word: Studies in Honor of Paul Kiparsky (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Kristin Hanson Publisher Comments Paul Kiparsky's work in linguistics has been wide-ranging and fundamental. His contributions as a scholar and teacher have transformed virtually every subfield of contemporary linguistics, from generative phonology to poetic theory. This collection of... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $40.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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Key Terms in Language & Culture by Alessandro Duranti Publisher Comments Key Terms in Language and Cultureis a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields, and covering the major issues in the contemporary study of language and culture. Together these... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Syntax of Hungarian (Cambridge Syntax Guides) by Katalin Ae Kiss Publisher Comments Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in Hungarian.... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price: $19.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Introduction to Handbook of American Indian languages by Franz Boas Publisher Comments Combined here are two classics on the nature of native languages of North America: Boas' famous 1911 essay pointing to new methods of research and Powell's pioneering 1891 work on classification.-Scholarly Books in America Two cognate essays-the first by... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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