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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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Sociolinguistic Variation and Change by Scott F Kiesling Publisher Comments The study of variation and change lies at the heart of sociolinguistic enterprise, yet few texts cover the full range of studies produced in this field. This collection widely surveys this work, focusing on the tension created among three constraints on... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language Its Structure & Use 3RD Edition by Edward Finegan Publisher Comments 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) List Price $57.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Linguistics: The Cambridge Survey: Volume 4, Language: The Socio-Cultural Context by Frederick Newmeyer Publisher Comments 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) List Price $75.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Silent Child: Exploring the World of Children Who Do Not Speak by Laurent Danon Boileau Publisher Comments Laurent Danon-Boileau is one of France's most respected child psychoanalysts. In The Silent Child, he takes us into his office to watch him treat six children who cannot or will not speak. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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English Words by Francis Katamba Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language by Oswald Ducrot Publisher Comments 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) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction by William Ogrady Publisher Comments Contemporary Linguistics is the gold standard of introductory linguistics textbooks. Meticulously prepared, it is one of the most comprehensive, authoritative, up-to-date introductory resources on the market. The books extensive examples and exercises... (read more) List Price $69.50 Your price: $33.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Language Awareness by Paul Eschholz Publisher Comments 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) List Price $59.40 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Madre: Perilous Journeys with a Spanish Noun by Liza Bakewell Publisher Comments 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) List Price $23.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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Noam Chomsky #1: Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent by Robert Barsky Publisher Comments This biography describes the intellectual and political milieus that helped shape Noam Chomsky, a pivotal figure in contemporary linguistics, politics, cognitive psychology, and philosophy. It also presents an engaging political history of the last... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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A History of the English Language by N F Blake Publisher Comments "In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society." --Martin Bernal Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved by Robbins Burling Publisher Comments Humans never run out of things to say. We explain, we cajole, we gossip, and we flirt--all with the help of language. But how in the space of several million years did we evolve from an ordinary primate that that could not talk to the strange human... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax #16: The Feature Structure of Functional Categories: A Comparative Study of Arabic Dialects by Elabbas Benmamoun Publisher Comments Focusing on the relation between functional categories and lexical and phrasal categories in Arabic dialects, Benmamoun proposes that universally functional categories are specified for categorial features which determine their relation with lexical... (read more) List Price $134.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Current Studies in Linguistics #31: Working Minimalism by Samuel David Epstein Publisher Comments The essays in this book present explicit syntactic analyses that adhere to programmatic minimalist guidelines. Thus they show how the guiding ideas of minimalism can shape the construction of a new, more explanatory theory of the syntactic component of... (read more) List Price $43.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gender and Conversational Interaction (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Deborah Tannen Publisher Comments The author of the best-selling You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen, has collected twelve papers about gender-related patterns in conversational interaction. The theoretical thrust of the collection, like that of Tannen's own work, is... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Language and Reality - 2nd Edition: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Bradford Books) by Michael Devitt Publisher Comments What is language? How does it relate to the world? How does it relate to the mind? Should our view of language influence our view of the world? These are among the central issues covered in this spirited and unusually clear introduction to the philosophy... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Collected Works of M.A.K. Halliday #03: On Language and Linguistics by M A K Halliday Publisher Comments For nearly half a century, 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 the seminal works of Professor Halliday... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price: $35.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Asia-Local Studies/Global Themes #11: Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan by Miyako Inoue Publisher Comments This highly original study provides an entirely new critical perspective on the central importance of ideas about language in the reproduction of gender, class, and race divisions in modern Japan. Focusing on a phenomenon commonly called "women's... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Augmentative and Alternative Communication: New Directions in Research and Practice by Filip T Loncke Publisher Comments Augmentative and alternative communication (ACC) is the result of multiple developments in several areas of educational sciences, clinical psychology, speech-language pathology, engineering, speech synthesis, sociology and psycholinguistics. With... (read more) List Price $200.95 Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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