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How Languages Are Learned (3RD 06 Edition) by Patsy M. Lightbown Publisher Comments This thoroughly updated third edition presents the main theories of language acquisition, considering their bearing on language teaching. It discusses the effects of factors such as intelligence, personality, and age. It helps teachers assess the merits... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $28.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Power of Babel : a Natural History of Language (01 Edition) by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments 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) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram Publisher Comments David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Linguistics by William Ogrady Publisher Comments This widely praised Study Guide gives students extra practice and support with a range of supplemental exercises and an answer key. Revised for the sixth edition.... (read more) List Price $102.25 Your price: $41.00 Used - 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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Born To Talk: an Introduction To Speech and Language Development (5TH 10 Edition) by Lloyd M. Hulit Publisher Comments In a new fifth edition that offers exciting expansions and updates, Born To Talk continues to provide college students of all levels with a contemporary and comprehensive view of speech and language development in a reader-friendly and interactive manner.... (read more) List Price $138.67 Your price: $105.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Orality and Literacy ((2ND)02 Edition) by Walter J. Ong Publisher Comments This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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S/Z: An Essay by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Language in the Usa : Themes for the Twenty-first Century (04 Edition) by Edward Finegan Publisher Comments This textbook furnishes a comprehensive survey of current language issues in the U.S., exploring the nature of language variation in the United States and its social, historical and political significance. The book is divided into three sections: Part I,... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language (96 Edition) by Robin Dunbar Publisher Comments What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about what gossip has done for our talkative species. Psychologist Robin Dunbar looks at gossip as an instrument... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Thought and Language (Rev 86 Edition) by Lev S. Vygotsky Publisher Comments Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's highly original exploration of human mental development has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price: $27.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Elements of Semiology by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments "In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How To Do Things With Words (2ND 75 Edition) by J. L. Austin Publisher Comments John L. Austin was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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English Phonology : an Introduction (92 Edition) by Heinz J. Giegerich Publisher Comments This is an introduction to the phonology of present-day English. It deals principally with three varieties of English: "General American," Southern British "Received Pronunciation" and "Scottish Standard English." It offers a systematic and detailed... (read more) List Price $57.00 Your price: $43.00 Used - Trade Paper
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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing readers in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book. 16-page insert.... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Old English and Its Closest Relatives : a Survey of the Earliest Germanic Languages (92 Edition) by Orrin W. Robinson Publisher Comments This book surveys the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of the earliest known Germanic... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Practice With Idioms (80 Edition) by Ronald E. Feare Publisher Comments A variety of exercises reinforce and explain. An appendix of grammatical terms and categories is included.... (read more) List Price $20.75 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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What Is Morphology? (05 - Old Edition) by Mark Aronoff Publisher Comments What is Morphology? is a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas of morphology that equips readers with the skills to analyze a wealth of classic morphological issues. Provides a concise and critical introduction to the central ideas and... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language : Its Structure and Use (6TH 12 Edition) by Edward Finegan Publisher Comments Whatever you do and wherever you go, you use language to interact. This text explains what human language is and how it works, giving you a look into the multiple fascinating and surprising facets of this uniquely human trait. It offers many... (read more) List Price $173.95 Your price: $114.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Finding Our Tongues: Mothers, Infants, and the Origins of Language by Dean Falk Publisher Comments Scientists have long theorized that abstract, symbolic thinking evolved to help humans negotiate such classically male activities as hunting, tool making, and warfare, and eventually developed into spoken language. In Finding Our Tongues, Dean Falk... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Hardcover
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