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Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
by Siobhan (edt) Chapman  Publisher Comments This book is a unique and accessible reference guide to the work of eighty key figures who have played an important role in the development of ideas about language from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The entries are extensively cross referenced...
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Loom of Language : an Approach To the Mastery of Many Languages (85 Edition)
by Frederick Bodmer Publisher Comments Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for...
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Structuring Sense
by Hagit Borer Publisher Comments Structuring Sense explores the difference between words however defined and structures however constructed. It sets out to demonstrate over three volumes, of which this is the first, that the explanation of linguistic competence should be shifted from...
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Atlas of Languages (Rev 03 Edition)
by Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, Stephen Matthews Comrie Publisher Comments The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture...
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Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
by Galit Hasan Rokem Publisher Comments This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists...
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Truth, Thought, Reason: Essays on Frege
by Tyler Burge Publisher Comments Tyler Burge presents a collection of his seminal essays on Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), who has a strong claim to be seen as the founder of modern analytic philosophy, and whose work remains at the centre of philosophical debate today. Truth, Thought...
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Introducing Linguistics (Rev 06 Edition)
by R. L. Trask Publisher Comments Introducing Linguistics presents a summary of the history of linguistics, from Aristotle to Chomsky, and provides a review of the most recent and dramatic advances in the field, such as first language acquisition by children, language in the brain, sign...
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
by George Steiner Publisher Comments When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the...
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Constructing a Language : Usage-based Theory of Language Acquisition (03 Edition)
by Michael Tomasello Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates...
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Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar: Comprehensive Acquisition
by Yuki Johnson Synopsis This extensive and thorough explanation of crucial Japanese grammar in English is the culmination of years of teaching and research. Informed by the work of eminent linguist Susumu Kuno, Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar is designed for students who have...
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Historical Linguistics : an Introduction (2ND 04 Edition)
by Lyle Campbell Publisher Comments A comprehensive text that not only introduces students to the important topics in historical linguistics but also shows them how to apply the methods described....
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A History of Language (Globalities)
by Steven Fischer Publisher Comments It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication...
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Word Court: Wherein Verbal Virtue is Rewarded, Crimes Against the Language Are Punished, and Poetic Justice is Done
by Barbara Wallraff Publisher Comments By the author of the Atlantic Monthly's highly popular column "Word Court," the most engaging grammar guide of our time, with all the authority of Strunk and White and all the fun of Woe Is I. The "Judge Judy of Grammar" was born when the Atlantic...
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (P.S.)
by Michael Wex Publisher Comments A delightful excursion through the Yiddish language, the culture it defines and serves, and the fine art of complaint Throughout history, Jews around the world have had plenty of reasons to lament. And for a thousand years, they've had the perfect...
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Perspectives on Language and Thought: Interrelations in Development
by Susan A. (edt) Gelman Publisher Comments From the time of birth through the early school years, young children rapidly acquire two complex cognitive systems: They organize their experiences into concepts and categories, and they acquire their first language. How do children accomplish these...
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Optimality Theory (99 Edition)
by Rene Kager Publisher Comments First ever textbook on Optimality Theory, a major new area of linguistic theory....
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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....
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Beginning Interactive Grammar: Activities and Exercises (College ESL)
by Irene Mckay Publisher Comments An interactive approach helps students personalize language learning through meaningful grammar practice.<BR>-- A learner-centered and cooperative approach permits the teacher to act as facilitator and co-communicator in the language learning...
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (65 Edition)
by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Chomsky proposes a reformulation of the theory of transformational generative grammar that takes recent developments in the descriptive analysis of particular languages into account....
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Cultural Semantics -Cp (Critical Perspectives on Modern Culture)
by Martin Jay Publisher Comments A leading intellectual historian explores some of the reigning assumptions and imperatives of our age A selection of Martin Jay's recent writings on contemporary thought and culture, this is a book about ideas that matter -- and about why ideas matter...
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