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The Mother Tongue
The Mother Tongue
by Bill Bryson
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"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)

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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
by Michael Erard
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In the tradition of the bestsellers Word Freak and The Language Instinct comes a fascinating exploration of linguistic superlearners whose abilities shed light on the intellectual potential in us all. What do an Italian cardinal, a Connecticut blacksmith,... (read more)

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Construal
Construal
by Lyn Frazier
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Construal presents a new theory of sentence processing, one that allows a limited type of underspecification in the syntactic analysis of sentences. It extends what has arguably been the dominant theory of parsing (the garden-path theory developed by Lyn... (read more)

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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us
by James W Pennebaker
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  We spend our lives communicating. In the last fifty years, we've zoomed through radically different forms of communication, from typewriters to tablet computers, text messages to tweets. We generate more and more words with each passing day... (read more)

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You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
by Robert Lane Greene
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"An insightful, accessible examination of the way in which day-to-day speech is tangled in a complicated web of history, politics, race, economics and power." - Kirkus What is it about other people’s language that moves some of us to anxiety or... (read more)

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Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
by David Crystal
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Text messaging has spread like wildfire. Indeed texting is so widespread that many parents, teachers, and media pundits have been outspoken in their criticism of it. Does texting spell the end of western civilization? In this humorous, level-headed and... (read more)

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Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages
Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages
by Elizabeth Little
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Though we're known as a nation of English speakers, the linguistic map of the United States is hardly monochromatic. While much ado has been made about the role that Spanish may play in our national future, it would be a gross misrepresentation to label... (read more)

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The Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)
The Semantics of Clause Linking: A Cross-Linguistic Typology (Explorations in Linguistic Typology)
by R M W Dixon
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This book is a cross-linguistic examination of the different grammatical means languages employ to represent a general set of semantic relations between clauses. The investigations focus on ways of combining clauses other than through relative and... (read more)

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A Grammar of Semelai (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions)
A Grammar of Semelai (Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions)
by Nicole D Kruspe
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This book provides a comprehensive reference grammar of Semelai, a previously undescribed and endangered language.... (read more)

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Dictionary of English Down the Ages
Dictionary of English Down the Ages
by Linda Flavell
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After reaching America, Columbus introduced Europe to new foodstuffs such as chilli and chocolate, and the words that described them. Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the first "jubilee" in 1300, and Francis Bacon published the first "essay" in 1597. The... (read more)

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The Loom of Language
The Loom of Language
by Frederick Bodmer
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It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages--Teutonic, Romance, Greek--helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of... (read more)

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Lexicographer's Dilemma
Lexicographer's Dilemma
by Jack Lynch
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In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers—those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. The Lexicographer's Dilemma poses a pair of questions—what does proper English mean, and who... (read more)

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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
by Michael Erard
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In Babel No More, Michael Erard, “a monolingual with benefits,” sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like the nineteenth-century... (read more)

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Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
by Derek Bickerton
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How 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 problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as... (read more)

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Globish: How the English Became the World's Language
Globish: How the English Became the World's Language
by Robert Mccrum
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It seems impossible: a small island in the North Atlantic, colonized by Rome, then pillaged for hundreds of years by marauding neighbors, becomes the dominant world power in the nineteenth century. In this provocative new look at the course of empire... (read more)

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The English Is Coming!: How One Language Is Sweeping the World
The English Is Coming!: How One Language Is Sweeping the World
by Leslie Dunton Downer
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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)

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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
by John Mcwhorter
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There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us... (read more)

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Noam Chomsky (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)
Noam Chomsky (Reaktion Books - Critical Lives)
by Wolfgang B Sperlich
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“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)

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Do You Make These Mistakes in English?: The Story of Sherin Cody's Famous Language School
Do You Make These Mistakes in English?: The Story of Sherin Cody's Famous Language School
by Edwin L Battistella
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In the early 1900s, the language of America was becoming colloquial English-the language of the businessman, manager, and professional. Since college and high school education were far from universal, many people turned to correspondence education-that... (read more)

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Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun
Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun
by Liza Bakewell
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Bakewell's study is part memoir, part travelogue, and part investigation into a culture and its language.... (read more)

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