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The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg Publisher Comments 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.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Stages #0002: Mimologics : Mimologiques: Voyage En Cratylie by Gerard Genette Publisher Comments Do words—their sounds and shapes, their lengths and patterns—imitate the world? Mimology says they do. First argued in Platos Cratylus more than two thousand years ago, mimology has left an important mark in virtually every major art... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Critical Applied Linguistics PR by Alastair Pennycook Publisher Comments This accessible guide and introduction to critical applied linguistics provides a clear overview, highlighting problems, debates, and competing views in language education, literacy, discourse analysis, language in the workplace, translation and other... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Linguistic Inquiry Monograph #0032: The Syntax of Nonfinite Complementation: An Economy Approach by Zeljko Boskovic Publisher Comments Economy considerations have always played an important role in the generative theory of grammar. Indeed, the very development of the theory has been characterized by natural considerations of simplicity and economy. In the Minimalist Program, the... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Language by Arnold D Wadler Publisher Comments From ancient times, we are told in the story of the Tower of Babel, human beings have been separated by different languages and, consequently, different cultures. Over the centuries, this division has increased and the distance between nations and... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Phonology: An Introduction to Basic Concepts (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Roger Lass Publisher Comments Roger Lass sees phonology as essentially a problem-centred discipline. He concentrates rather on introducing the student to the perennial concerns in the study of sound structure. Hence his book adopts a broad and eclectic framework, unbiased toward any... (read more) List Price $95.75 Your price: $18.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Glossary of Language and Mind by Jean Aitchison Publisher Comments This alphabetical guide to language and mind gives an up-to-date introduction to the key topics of speech comprehension, speech production and child language. Written by a well-known author in the field, the entries are concise and lucid, and provide an... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Language, Culture, and Society: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology by Zdenek Salzmann Publisher Comments The third edition of Language, Culture, and Society continues to address the full spectrum of fundamental topics in linguistic anthropology. Because anthropology stresses a holistic view, the integration of data from all subfields of anthropology and... (read more) List Price $37.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Life in Letters: The Personal, the Professional, and the Political by Sol Saporta Publisher Comments This is a varied collection of letters to the editors of various newspapers, which reflect the interaction of Sol Saporta's personal, professional, and political life and thinking over a period of 25 years. A large section of the letters deal with... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Linguistics (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Theodora Bynon Publisher Comments Part I she establishes the theoretical framework by providing a systematic survey of the three main models of language development and in Part 2 turns to sociolinguistics and shows how changes within a language over a period of time, and changes brought... (read more) List Price $61.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $231.50 Your price: $40.00 Used - Hardcover
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Biting the Wax Tadpole: Confessions of a Language Fanatic by Elizabeth Little Publisher Comments When Chinese shopkeepers tried to find a written equivalent of Coca-Cola, one set of characters they chose was pronounced ke-kou ke-la. It sounded right, but it literally translated as bite the wax tadpole. Language, like travel, is always stranger than... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bilingualism Across the Lifespan: Aspects of Acquisition, Maturity, and Loss by Kenneth Hyltenstam Publisher Comments In this broad overview of current theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of bilingualism, the contributors examine the dynamics of bilingual language processing over time from the perspectives of neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics and... (read more) List Price $63.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Current Studies in Linguistics #41: Situations and Individuals by Paul D. Elbourne Publisher Comments In Situations and Individuals, Paul Elbourne argues that the natural language expressions that have been taken to refer to individuals -- pronouns, proper names, and definite descriptions -- have a common syntax and semantics, roughly that of definite... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing the Story of Alphabets by Shelby Rice Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries RM volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Parameter Setting (Studies in the Theoretical Psycholinguistics) by Thomas Roeper Review `These papers represent the best current thinking by linguists of how contemporary theories of grammar can help to explain real time acquisition. The essays are both theoretically sensitive and empirically reasonable. Roeper and Williams' collection will... (read more) List Price $93.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Adventure of English by Melvin Bragg Publisher Comments Here is the riveting story of the English language, from its humble beginnings as a regional dialect to its current preeminence as the one global language, spoken by more than two billion people worldwide. In this groundbreaking book, Melvyn Bragg shows... (read more) Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics #18: Speaking Through the Silence: Narratives, Social Conventions, and Power in Java by Laine Berman Publisher Comments Uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks, Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women discursively construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical... (read more) List Price $172.50 Your price: $14.50 Used - Hardcover
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Language Myths and the History of English (Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics) by Richard J Watts Publisher Comments Language Myths and the History of English aims to deconstruct the myths that are traditionally reproduced as factual accounts of the historical development of English. Using concepts and interpretive sensibilities developed in the field of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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