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by Nicholas Ostler  Publisher Comments Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the... (read more)  List Price $17.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Russ Rymer Publisher Comments The compelling story of a young woman's emergence into the world after spending her first 13 years strapped to a chair, and her rescue and exploitation by scientists hoping to gain new insight into language acquisition.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alwin Fill Synopsis Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $42.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roy Harris Synopsis Roy Harris shows that the theory of writing adopted in modern linguistics is deeply flawed. Reversing the orthodox priorities, the author argues that writing is a far more powerful mode of linguistic communication than speech could ever be.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Payne Publisher Comments 'This book is a guide for linguistic fieldworkers who wish to write a description of the morphology and syntax of one of the world\'s many under-documented languages.'... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Bright Publisher Comments South Asia presents the linguist with a bewildering variety of regional dialects, social dialects, formal and informal registers, literary standards, languages, writing systems, and language families. Written over a period of more than twenty years... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $4.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Crystal Publisher Comments Where did human language come from? How many languages are there? How do we acquire our first language or learn a second one? The highly acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language by David Crystal answers these and other questions about language. From... (read more) List Price $36.99 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a series of penetrating essays, Chomsky cuts through the confusion and prejudice that has infected the study... (read more) List Price $30.99 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments In this classic study, the world's leading expert on language and the mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about languages: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it envolved. With... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270).... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark C Baker 
Powells.com 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... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah Tannen Publisher Comments Provides a clear framework for understanding how ordinary conversation creates meaning and establishes relationships.... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bir Arnbjornsdottir Synopsis North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it. North American... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Wardhaugh Publisher Comments Since it first appeared more than fifteen years ago, Ronald Wardhaugh's An Introduction to Sociolinguistics has been an immensely popular textbook for courses in sociolinguistics and the sociology of language. Provides an accessible, comprehensive... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Yule Publisher Comments This new edition of The Study of Language incorporates many changes that reflect developments in language study over the past decade.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Zdenek Salzmann About the Author Zdenek Salzmann, a native of Prague, is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst . A specialist in Native American languages and folklore, he has held guest professorships at Yale University and the University of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Maher Publisher Comments Heir to the Enlightenment tradition, Chomsky has introduced new perspectives on language, the creative individual and the nature of human freedom in society.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Roge Fischer Publisher Comments From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world. Commencing with the first stages of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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