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M.I.T. Press Paperback Series #5: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings
M.I.T. Press Paperback Series #5: Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings
by Benjamin Lee Whorf
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The pioneering linguist Benjamin Whorf (1897--1941) grasped the relationship between human language and human thinking: how language can shape our innermost thoughts. His basic thesis is that our perception of the world and our ways of thinking about it... (read more)

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Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
by Derek Bickerton
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How language evolved has been called “the hardest problem in science.” In Adams Tongue, Derek Bickertonlong a leading authority in this fieldshows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics... (read more)

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Language in Thought & Action 5TH Edition
Language in Thought & Action 5TH Edition
by S I Hayakawa
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In an era when communication has become increasingly diverse and complex, this classic work on semantics—now fully revised and updated—distills the relationship between language and those who use it.   Renowned professor and... (read more)

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Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log
Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log
by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum
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Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum have collected some of their most insightful and amusing material from Language Log, the popular web site they founded. Often irreverent and hilarious, these brief essays take on many sacred cows, showing us —... (read more)

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Dialectology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Dialectology (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by J K Chambers
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Dialectology is the study of language variation. Traditionally, this has largely been the province of dialect geographers, who concentrated on the speech of the linguistically conservative rural population in order to map regional differences. More... (read more)

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Psycholinguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
Psycholinguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)
by Michael Garman
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This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing and suitable for any reader with an interest in the psychological foundations of human language.... (read more)

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Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language
Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions about Language
by Donna Jo Napoli
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Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day.... (read more)

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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar
by Mark C Baker
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It's difficult to fathom that the incredible number of languages in the world can be broken down into a small group of shared parameters. Mark Baker shows that this is possible due to a key uniting factor: grammar. His investigation spans the Navajo Code... (read more)

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Contemporary Linguistics an Introduction 4TH Edition
Contemporary Linguistics an Introduction 4TH Edition
by William Ogrady
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Contemporary Linguistics offer integrated and comprehensive coverage of linguistics written by experts in the field -- from phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics to cross-curricular topics such as sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics and... (read more)

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The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
by Christine Kenneally
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The First Word is a fascinating search for the origins of language, which takes the reader through genetics, evolution, and the process of defining language itself. Christine Kenneally is a capable guide to answering this difficult and complex question... (read more)

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Do You Speak American?
Do You Speak American?
by Robert Macneil
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The companion volume to a PBS special, this is the tale of the surprising discoveries the authors made while interviewing a host of native speakers and observing everyday verbal interactions across the country. High school & older.... (read more)

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Introduction to Language and Society (Novel in History)
Introduction to Language and Society (Novel in History)
by Martin Montgomery
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An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language. This second edition includes new material on gender, register, the speech community... (read more)

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Language Death
Language Death
by David Crystal
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A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.... (read more)

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Language Its Structure & Use 3RD Edition
Language Its Structure & Use 3RD Edition
by Edward Finegan
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Finegan's best selling text, LANGUAGE: ITS STRUCTURE AND USE, Fourth Edition maintains its relevance with new emphasis on the political and social aspects of language including "Applications to the Professions."... (read more)

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Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Volume 4, Language: The Socio-Cultural Context
Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Volume 4, Language: The Socio-Cultural Context
by Frederick Newmeyer
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Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey is a comprehensive introduction to current research in all branches of the field of linguistics, from syntactic theory to ethnography of speaking, from signed language to the mental lexicon, from language acquisition to... (read more)

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English Words
English Words
by Francis Katamba
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This book aims to arouse curiosity about English words and about the nature of language in general, especially among students who do not intend to specialize in linguistics. It examins words from various backgrounds - poetry, journalism, advertising. No... (read more)

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Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language
Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language
by Oswald Ducrot
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All of the] articles are well-informed and useful and many... are models of lucidity and acumen... Porter's translation is stylish, accurate, and highly readable.--MLN A valuable addition to any linguistics or stylistics library and is helpful reading... (read more)

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Language Awareness
Language Awareness
by Paul Eschholz
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Language Awareness was the first composition reader to use the theme of language to heighten students awareness of the power of words -- and to help them use language more effectively themselves. Thirty years later, language readers are still the most... (read more)

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Publication of the American Dialect Society #86: Milestone in the History of English in America
Publication of the American Dialect Society #86: Milestone in the History of English in America
by Allen Walker Read
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A collection of essays by one of the premier historians of American English, "Milestones in the History of English in America" is a remarkable introduction to Allen Walker Read's work and the ways in which archival materials can illuminate linguistic... (read more)

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Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun
Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun
by Liza Bakewell
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Leaping off the page with energy, insight, and attitude, Liza Bakewell's exploration of language is anything but "just semantics." Why does me vale madre mean worthless, while ¡qué padre! means fabulous, she asks? And why do one hundred... (read more)

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