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Metaphors We Live by by George Lakoff Publisher Comments The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner by Geneva Smitherman Publisher Comments Fully revised and updated -- the ultimate guide to black talk from all segments of the African American community.Do you want to be down with the latest hype terms from the Hip Hop world? Black Talk is the perfect source. "Even if you think you're hip... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Words Words Words by David Crystal Publisher Comments "Words, Words, Words" is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life f its own: it only... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English by Henry Hitchings Publisher Comments AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR The Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we've come to know as the English languag. It's a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Language Wars: A History of Proper English by Henry Hitchings Publisher Comments The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values—morality, politics, and class. The Language Wars examines the present state... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Harmonic Mind: From Neural Computation To Optimality-theoretic Grammarvolume II: Linguistic and Philosophical Implications by Paul Smolensky Publisher Comments Despite their apparently divergent accounts of higher cognition, cognitive theories based on neural computation and those employing symbolic computation can in fact strengthen one another. To substantiate this controversial claim, this landmark work... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Global Mother Tongue: The Eight Flavours of English by Howard Richler Publisher Comments Celebrating a language that is spoken by 1.6 billion people, this entertaining analysis explores the international growth of English and gives an in-depth examination of its history. Explaining the differences and... (read more) List Price $16.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The story of English by Robert Mccrum Publisher Comments ....The Story of English is the first book to tell the whole story of the English language. Originally paired with a major PBS miniseries, this book presents a stimulating and comprehensive record of spoken and written English-from its Anglo-Saxon... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: the Untold Story of English (08 Edition) by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar Why do we say I am reading a catalog instead of I read a catalog? Why do we say do at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be by John McWhorter Publisher Comments New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in the world to the big... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Is the Best Good Enough? Optimality and Competition in Syntax (Mit Working Papers in Linguistics) by Pilar Barbosa Publisher Comments Recent developments in linguistic theory have led to a reconsideration of the role of optimality in the overall architecture of the grammar. Emerging from this research is the idea that different components of the grammar interact to yield the best... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Neurolinguistics and Linguistic Aphasiology: An Introduction (Cambridge Studies in Speech Science & Communication) by David Caplan Publisher Comments This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the emerging fields of neurolinguistics and linguistic aphasiology. Reflecting the dramatic changes that have taken place in the study of language disorders over the last decade, David Caplan's... (read more) List Price $83.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Current Studies in Linguistics #35: Parasitic Gaps by Peter Culicover Publisher Comments This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon. The first section of the book contains a history of work on the topic and three fundamental previously published papers. The remaining three... (read more) List Price $69.25 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Psycholinguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Michael Garman Publisher Comments 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) List Price $77.25 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar by Mark C Baker Staff Pick 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) List Price $17.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction by John Lyons Publisher Comments This successor to Language, Meaning and Context provides an invaluable introduction to linguistic semantics.... (read more) List Price $65.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Linguistics an Introduction 4TH Edition by William Ogrady Synopsis 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) List Price $62.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Do You Speak American? by Robert Macneil Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Understanding Language Change by April Mcmahon Publisher Comments This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday #04: The Language of Early Childhood with CD (Audio) by M A K Halliday Publisher Comments Professor M A K Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents his seminal works. This fourth volume contains sixteen papers that look... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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