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by Adam Jaworski  Publisher Comments This book provides a theoretical account of a variety of different communicative aspects of silence and explores new ways of studying socially-motivated language. A research overview shows the influence of related work in the fields of media studies... (read more)  List Price $42.95 Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Benjamin Harshav Publisher Comments With a rare combination of erudition and insight, the author investigates the major aspects of Yiddish language and culture, showing where Yiddish came from and what it has to offer, even as it ceases to be a “living” language. Reviews “... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rudi Keller Publisher Comments Signs shape our lives: we are surrounded by signs, we surround ourselves with signs, and usually we are completely unaware of it. Rudi Keller shows how signs emerge, function, and develop in the permanent process of language change. He recombines... (read more) List Price $36.00 Your price $13.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Shotter Publisher Comments This imaginative and original book challenges the traditional scientific view that naturally occurring psychological and sociological `realities' are to be discovered underlying appearances. Instead, it claims that such orderly realities are both... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Radford Publisher Comments Intended primarily for students lacking back-ground in syntax, this introduction covers the goals of linguistic theory, syntactic structure, the nature and role of the lexicon, and the function and operations of transformations.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vivien C Tartter Publisher Comments Presenting the psychology of language from diverse perspectives, Language and Its Normal Processing explains how language is defined and how it is shaped by the social, perceptual and cognitive constraints of the user, and what role biology plays in... (read more) List Price $104.00 Your price $48.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adrian Akmajian Publisher Comments The fourth edition of Linguistics has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the increasing confluence of linguistics and cognitive science. This is especially evident in the chapter on language acquisition, which now includes sections on the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $23.95 (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 $16.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Nettle Publisher Comments Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In fact, at least half of the world's languages may die out in the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Esther Torrego Publisher Comments This monograph investigates the nature, properties, and consequences of the grammatical constraints that yield overt marking of objects in a variety of languages. The author, working within the Minimalist Program, concentrates on the syntactic and... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Hsu Publisher Comments This collection of essays and poems examines various recent literary texts and cultural arenas in North America and the Asia and Pacific regions for what they reveal about the ongoing struggles of indigenous people and people of color for justice and... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $6.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Neil Smith Publisher Comments Chomsky has had a major influence on modern linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. In this rigorous yet accessible account of Chomsky's work, Neil Smith analyzes Chomsky's key contributions to the study of both language and the mind. He gives a... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M E Kropp Dakubu Publisher Comments Ghana has played a key role in African/Western relations since medieval times. For this reason and others, Ghana has evolved into a linguistic quilt that contains forty-four indigenous languages and several exotic ones, of which most Ghanians speak at... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Renate Musan Publisher Comments This book provides an extensive account of perfect constructions in German, of its numerous meaning effects, and of its interaction with temporal adverbials and temporal subclauses. By doing this, it takes the semantics of the whole German tense system... (read more) List Price $111.00 Your price $50.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey Hughes Publisher Comments Swearing in the English language has a long history that encompasses a rich variety of modes, including heroic oaths, sacred undertakings, profane and blasphemous curses, taboo insults charged with sexual and excremental "four-letter" words, competitive... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey K Pullum Publisher Comments Phonetic Symbol Guide is a comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia of phonetic alphabet symbols, providing a complete survey of the hundreds of characters used by linguists and speech scientists to record the sounds of the world's languages. This... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sally Johnson Publisher Comments Feminist linguistics has come of age. Yet, in more than two decades of research, male speaking patterns have largely been taken for granted. This is the first extensive account of men's language - of male ways of speaking and of language in the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum Publisher Comments 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) List Price $22.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tore Janson Publisher Comments This is the first popular history of the world's most influential language.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol Myers Scotton Publisher Comments This collection of essays considers how messages of intentionality are conveyed by choosing one style of English over another. While these choices are not necessarily conscious, implicit in the communicative competence of a speaker, performer, or writer... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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