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By Hook or by Crook: A Journey in Search of English
by David Crystal  Synopsis In this delightful excursion through the English language, Crystal combines personal reflections, historical allusions, and a traveler's observations to create a mesmerizing and entertaining narrative account with the language and its speakers....
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Teach Yourself Linguistics (04 Edition)
by Jean Aitchison Publisher Comments "Teach Yourself Linguistics" is a straightforward introduction to linguistics, the systematic study that seeks to answer two fundamental questions: "What is language?" and "How does language work?" This book outlines the scope of linguistics, explaining...
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Doing Our Own Thing
by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments "Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable." The Economist "Provocative, funny. . . McWhorter suggests that prose ought to be something [we decorate out of a...
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The Fight for English: How Language Pundits Ate, Shot, and Left
by David Crystal Publisher Comments Weve all been taught that this sentence--"Driving in from the airport, the flags flapped furiously"--is wrong, wrong, wrong. But is it, asks David Crystal. Everyone knows what this sentence means. No one actually thinks that the flags were driving the...
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
by Michael Agar Publisher Comments This guide to understanding the culture of conversation is by one of America's foremost linguistic anthropologists. In a fascinating journey through the meaning of language--and the relationship of language to culture--Michael Agar sheds new light on the...
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The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution
by Jean Aitchison Publisher Comments Clear and non-technical overview of the history of language development by popular author....
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Parmenides and the History of Dialectic: Three Essays
by Scott Austin Publisher Comments A study of the form of Parmenides? argument in relation to the form of Plato's dialogue ?The Parmenides? and to the form of subsequent dialectic in the Western tradition....
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #1: Classificatory Particles in Kilivila
by Gunter Senft Publisher Comments Common among the world's languages is the phenomenon of classification, a partly or fully grammatical division of the noun lexicon into distinct classes that ultimately derives from the human need to classify and filter data on various levels while...
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
by Daniel Heller-roazen Publisher Comments Just as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Speakers can forget words, phrases, even entire languages they once knew; over the course of time peoples, too, let go of the tongues that were once theirs, as languages disappear and give way to the...
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A History of the English Language
by N F Blake Publisher Comments What is a history of the English language? To a native speaker, the answer to this question might seem obvious; the story, from beginning to end, of the language that we use every day. But a history of the English language raises the prickly question of...
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The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology
by Robert Bringhurst Publisher Comments “Poems, where I come from,” writes Robert Bringhurst, “are spoken to be written and written to be spoken. The Tree of Meaning is a book of critical prose composed in the same way.” Together these 13 lectures present a...
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Current Studies in Linguistics #16: Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and...
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
by Guy Deutscher Publisher Comments Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, the author exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays....
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Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (2ND 97 Edition)
by David Crystal Publisher Comments Where did human language come from? How many languages are there? How do we acquire our first language or learn a second one? The highly acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal answers these and other questions about language. From...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by P H Matthews Publisher Comments Here is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of linguistics available, fully revised for the second edition. Written by distinguished authority Peter Matthews, this handy reference includes over 3,150 entries providing worldwide coverage of...
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Language War
by Robin Tolmac Lakoff Publisher Comments The pioneering author of Language and Women's Place and Talking Power brings sociolinguistics to the family room with an entertaining analysis of the language battles taking place on our tv screens every night....
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Language & Human Nature
by Mark Halpern Publisher Comments Language & Human Nature shows how faults in language usage, far from being merely irritants to pedants and esthetes, are often both causes and effects of serious public problems, and explores the strange role that linguistics plays in this turbulent...
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Clause Structure and Word Order in Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Ur Shlonsky Publisher Comments Shlonsky uses Chomsky's Government and Binding Approach to examine clausal architecture and verb movement in Hebrew and several varieties of Arabic. He establishes a syntactic analysis of Hebrew and then extends that analysis to certain aspects of Arabic...
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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 Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? 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...
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Rules and Representations
by Noam Chomsky Review "From time to time, ever since Plato, grammar has been more than the bane of school children or a topic for scholars. It owes its present prominence outside linguistics to some theses stated twenty-five years ago by Noam Chomsky. These proposals have...
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