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Essential Linguistics : What You Need To Know To Teach Reading, Esl, Spelling, Phonics, and Grammar (04 Edition)
Essential Linguistics : What You Need To Know To Teach Reading, Esl, Spelling, Phonics, and Grammar (04 Edition)
by David E. Freeman
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The resource guide provides the instructor with suggested answers and responses to the Application Activities at the end of each chapter. Linguistics is much more than a study reserved for academicians. Linguistics has real-life applications to effective... (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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We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages, twenty . . . seventy? Such feats of linguistic prowess provide a glimpse into what the human brain is capable of—and hold up a mirror to our desire to... (read more)

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English Linguistics and Dialects
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English Vocabulary Elements
English Vocabulary Elements
by Keith M. Denning
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Fascination with words-their meanings, origins, pronunciation, usages-is something most of us experience at some point. This book aims both to fuel and to satisfy that fascination. The book is based on a course that each of... (read more)

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Making Wawa: The Genesis of Chinook Jargon
Making Wawa: The Genesis of Chinook Jargon
by George Lang
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A two-edged sword of reconciliation and betrayal, Chinook Jargon (or Wawa) arose at the interface of "Indian" and "White" societies in the Pacific Northwest. With the arrival of the fur trade, French trappers provided additional vocabulary and a set of... (read more)

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The Matrix of Language: Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology
The Matrix of Language: Contemporary Linguistic Anthropology
by Donald Brenneis
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The Matrix of Language introduces students and other readers to recent debates in the study of language and culture. The articles in this anthology, selected for their readability, present a range of methodological approaches and well-known case studies... (read more)

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Um : Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean (08 Edition)
Um : Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean (08 Edition)
by Michael Erard
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This original, entertaining, and surprising book investigates verbal blunders: what they are, what they say about those who make them, and how and why we've come to judge them. Um... is about how you really speak, and why it's normal for your everyday... (read more)

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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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Nigger : the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (02 Edition)
Nigger : the Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (02 Edition)
by Randall Kennedy
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Its “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word... (read more)

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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
by Mark C Baker
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It's difficult to fathom that the incredible number of languages in the world can be broken down into a small group of shared parameters. Mark Baker shows that this is possible due to a key uniting factor: grammar. His investigation spans the Navajo Code... (read more)

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Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language
Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language
by Oswald Ducrot
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All of the] articles are well-informed and useful and many... are models of lucidity and acumen... Porter's translation is stylish, accurate, and highly readable.--MLN A valuable addition to any linguistics or stylistics library and is helpful reading... (read more)

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