English Linguistics and Dialects
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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...
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By Hook or by Crook
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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Made in America
by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty western hamlet with neither woods nor holly came to be known as Hollywood...and exactly why Mr...
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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language
by Melvyn Bragg Synopsis Bragg's landmark history of the English language details how and where it began 1,500 years ago, and how it evolved to become the tongue of two billion people worldwide....
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Do You Speak American?
by Robert Macneil Publisher Comments Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline? Has the media saturation of our culture homogenized our speech? These and other questions catapulted Robert...
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The Phonetics of English and Dutch: Fifth Revised Edition
by I. Mees Synopsis This book is an introduction to the contrastive phonetics of English and Dutch aimed at the Dutch-speaking student from both the Netherlands and Belgium. Numerous self-study exercises are provided in pronunciation and transcription together with a...
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Concise Companion to the English Language
by Tom Mcarthur Publisher Comments The Concise Companion to the English Language is a language lover's dream. Tom McArthur unveils a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language as well as language in general. He covers a variety of topics, from...
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A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition
by Richard A. Lanham Synopsis The first edition of this widely used work has been reprinted many times over two decades. With a unique combination of alphabetical and descriptive lists, it provides in one convenient, accessible volume all the rhetorical terms--mostly Greek and Latin--...
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language
by David Crystal Publisher Comments English is arguably the nearest thing we have to a world language, and yet it is a language with a wealth of varieties, dialects, and traditions, all developing in different ways and at different speeds. This book is a superbly written and illustrated...
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Abc
by Matthew Porter Publisher Comments ABC is an adorable alphabet book that is full of gorgeous colors, textures and cute animals. It comes with funky acrylic and ink paintings on wood, like those well loved and worn wooden ABC blocks we stacked up, chewed up, kicked around, and dropped as...
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Inventing English (07 Edition)
by Lerer Publisher Comments Why is there such a striking difference between English spelling and English pronunciation? How did our seemingly relatively simple grammar rules develop? What are the origins of regional dialect, literary language, and everyday speech, and what do they...
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Word Nerd: More Than 17,000 Fascinating Facts about Words
by Barbara Ann Kipfer Publisher Comments Are You a Word Nerd? Did you know... Only a human (not an animal or thing) is able to do something The five on dice is called cinque K for strike-out in baseball comes from the last letter of struck To skice is to frisk about like squirrels in spring For...
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Readin' + Writin' for the Hard-hat Crowd; Curriculum Policy At an Urban University.
by Susan R Merrifield Publisher Comments Readin' + Writin' for the Hard-Hat Crowd explores the history of an urban public university from its conception in 1964 to the dawn of the twenty-first century. The reader views this place in time through the lens of the evolving nature of «...
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This Is Not My Dog! (First Words)
by Pam Scheunemann Synopsis FEATURES - Full-color Photographs - Picture Word Index - More Sight Word List - Similar Objects and Topics - Use of High Frequency Words - Simple Punctuation - Supports Language Arts Learner Outcomes...
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Spelling Made Simple
by Stephen V. Ross Publisher Comments For almost four decades, Made Simple books have set the standard for continuing education and home study. In answer to the changing needsof today's marketplace, the Made Simple series for the '90s presents a thoroughly up-to-the-minute portfolio of...
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The Puppy Is for Me! (First Words)
by Pam Scheunemann Synopsis FEATURES - Full-color Photographs - Picture Word Index - More Sight Word List - Similar Objects and Topics - Use of High Frequency Words - Simple Punctuation - Supports Language Arts Learner Outcomes...
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Language, Blacks and Gypsies: Languages Without a Written Tradition and Their Role in Education
by T Acton Publisher Comments This book results from a collaboration between activists and academics. The editors believe that if grammar is to become politically important, then educated people must receive some grounding in a scientifically based descriptive linguistics before they...
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We See the Beach! (First Words)
by Mary Elizabeth Salzmann Synopsis FEATURES - Full-color Photographs - Picture Word Index - More Sight Word List - Similar Objects and Topics - Use of High Frequency Words - Simple Punctuation - Supports Language Arts Learner Outcomes...
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Comparative Syntax of the Balkan Languages (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)
by Maria Luisa Rivero Publisher Comments This collection of seven papers studies important aspects of the syntax of Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, and Rumanian from a comparative perspective based on current linguistic frameworks, including the Minimalist Program. Topics addressed include control,...
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Orthography, Phonology, Morphology, & Meaning
by Frost Publisher Comments The area of research on printed word recognition has been one of the most active in the field of experimental psychology for well over a decade. However, notwithstanding the energetic research effort and despite the fact that there are many points of...
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