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Scouse-english Glossary (UK Edition)
by Fred Fazakerley  Publisher Comments The word 'Scouse' has three meanings - a stew made from cheap cuts of meat, a native of Liverpool and the dialect spoken by the inhabitants of that city. Made famous by the likes of Ken Dodd, television soaps such as Brookside and, of course, The Beatles,...
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Goof-Proof Spelling (Career Development-General Learning)
by Felice Primeau Devine Publisher Comments Only a few dozen spelling mistakes account for the majority of all errors. If you learn these common errors and how to correct and avoid them, your spelling ability will increase dramatically. Goof Proof Spelling covers these most common errors in mini...
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Rude Rhyming Slang (UK Edition)
by Tom Nind Publisher Comments Brace yourself for some scatological revelations. Amongst the smut and filth contained in this little book, readers will be happy to discover nine different words for piles and haemorrhoids together with more familiar terms like Tommy Guns, Banana Splits...
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Dirty Cockney Rhyming Slang (UK Edition)
by Publisher Comments The follow-up to the best-selling "Little Book Of Cockney Rhyming Slang" concentrates on expletives and insults....
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Psycholinguistics (Oxford Introduction to Language Study)
by Thomas Scovel Publisher Comments This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. This book examines how style is used inliterary and nonliterary texts. The topics include style as a matter of socialization, the production and reception...
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Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech
by Edward Sapir Publisher Comments Originally published in 1921, this classic is still regarded as one of the clearest, most comprehensive descriptions of language for the general reader. Index....
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The moral parameters of good talk :a feminist analysis
by Maryann Neely Ayim Book News Annotation The author contends that since language is capable of creating harm or good, it should not be exempt from the moral standards we apply to other behaviors--we should strive to talk in morally appropriate ways. Her proposed moral criteria for language...
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Semantic Theory (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Ruth M Kempson Publisher Comments 'An introduction to the central topics of linguistic semantics and the philosophy of language, assuming no special knowledge of philosophy or logic.'...
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Language in Social Worlds
by W P Robinson Publisher Comments This is the first text on language in communication written from a social psychological perspective that sets issues in their broader biological, sociological and cultural contexts....
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An Avalanche of Anoraks: For People Who Speak Foreign Languages Every Day...Whether They Know It or Not
by Robert J. White Publisher Comments A learned and lively collection of more than 1,000 surprising and intriguing words that English has borrowed from other languages, along with their often tantalizing histories and etymologies. The word book for people who speak foreign languages every...
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Children's Talk (Developing Child)
by Catherine Garvey Publisher Comments How do children learn the intangible rules of conversation, how do theymake talk "work?" Adults usually regard talk as a simple means of conveying information. Garvey's examination of children's talk reveals, however, that much more than this goes on in...
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Re Placing America Conversations & Conte
by Ruth Hsu Publisher Comments This collection of essays and poems examines various recent literary texts and cultural arenas in North America and the Asia and Pacific regions for what they reveal about the ongoing struggles of indigenous people and people of color for justice and...
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The Pronunciation of English
by Daniel Jones Publisher Comments This book provides in a lucid and authoritative manner the basic information needed by foreign students of the language on pronunciation....
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English Language (Rea's Language Series)
by Research & Education Association Publisher Comments Reviews the fundamentals of English language, including grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, and sentence structure. Other topics include capitalization, numbers, troublesome word usage, and commonly misspelled words....
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Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language
by S Morris Engel Publisher Comments Witty, thought-provoking exploration of government newspeak, exaggerated advertising claims, propaganda and other misuses of language -- and how to combat them.<BR>...
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Women in Their Speech Communities: New Perspectives on Language and Sex (Studies in Language & Linguistics)
by Jennifer Coates Synopsis A collection of essays, most published for the first time, which present a picture of research on women and language in Britain. The contributors cover a range of British speech communities, linguistic events and settings using approaches from...
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Language, Truth and Logic
by Alfred Jules Ayer Publisher Comments Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical...
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #05: Telling Our Selves: Ethnicity and Discourse in Southwestern Alaska
by Chase Hensel Publisher Comments In this book, Chase Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-natives construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities through strategic talk about hunting, fishing, and processing. Although ethnicity is overtly constructed in terms of either/or...
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Little Book of Cockney Rhyming Slang (UK Edition)
by Betty Kirkpatrick Synopsis Starting out as a private language to fool coppers (bottle and stoppers), Cockney rhyming slang has always had a tremendous vitality. This little book offers hundreds of definitions....
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Hot, Cold, Shy, Bold: Looking at Opposites
by Pamela Harris Publisher Comments From round and square to bearded and bare, large photographs introduce 13 pairs of opposites with simple rhyming text that's fun to read aloud....
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