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by Jacques Derrida  Publisher Comments "I have but one language--yet that language is not mine." This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate, then analyze this conundrum in terms of the distinguished author's own relationship to the... (read more)  List Price $20.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Robert Owens Publisher Comments As in previous editions, Owens presents even the most complex, technical concepts at an appropriate level for beginning students. Developed within a practical chronological framework, the Seventh Edition examines every aspect of syntax, morphology... (read more) List Price $126.50 Your price $83.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan M. Gass Publisher Comments This book is a thorough revision of the highly successful text first published in 1994. The authors retain the multidisciplinary approach that presents research from linguistics, sociology, psychology, and education, in a format designed for use in an... (read more) List Price $72.50 Your price $42.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ferdinand De Saussure Publisher Comments The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Comrie, Maria Polinsky, Stephen Matthews Comrie Publisher Comments The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Allesandro Duranti Publisher Comments An introduction to linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field which studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cultural practice.... (read more) List Price $44.99 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Larry Small Publisher Comments Centered on a strong foundation of hands-on experience, this book is designed to increase understanding of the most current topics and theories related to phonetics and phonetic transcription. This practical introduction to linguistic phonetics focuses... (read more) List Price $130.25 Your price $85.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ron Miller Synopsis "Targeting Pronunciation" uses a communicative, interactive approach to help intermediate and advanced ESL students communicate effectively and clearly in English. This up-to-date text makes pronunciation easy to teach and fun to learn. It features a... (read more) List Price $39.40 Your price $32.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Katherine Nelson Review This book on child language is 'must' reading for those interested in this field.... (read more) Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by C.s. Lewis Publisher Comments 'Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Macaulay Publisher Comments This engagingly written, highly readable volume introduces lay readers to the fascinating world of language. Replete with jokes, anecdotes, quotations, and readily intelligible examples, it offers a painless entree to the full range of linguistic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marcel Danesi Publisher Comments Why is it that certain members of the human species routinely put their survival at risk by smoking cigarettes? Why is it that some females make walking a struggle for themselves by donning high heel footwear? This book attempts to answer such questions.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Barbour Publisher Comments This volume examines the role of language in the present and past creation of social, cultural, and national identities in Europe, considering the way in which language may sometimes reinforce national identity (as in England) while tending to subvert... (read more) List Price $43.95 Your price $33.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alfred Jules Ayer Publisher Comments Classic introduction to objectives and methods of schools of empiricism and linguistic analysis, especially of the logical positivism derived from the Vienna Circle. Topics: elimination of metaphysics, function of philosophy, nature of philosophical... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Trudgill Publisher Comments Revised fourth edition.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Piper Publisher Comments Once again, this comprehensive, easy-to-read book explores the way in which children learn language, the way language is taught to children, and how these two roads to language sometimes diverge-always giving equal treatment to first and second language... (read more) List Price $81.50 Your price $53.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Wells Lindfors Publisher Comments This fascinating exploration of children's inquiry -- what it is, how it develops, and how it contributes to children's learning -- will help teacher educators and elementary teachers to understand, appreciate, and foster children's inquiry in classrooms.... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Smith Publisher Comments This sixth edition--a classic in the field of psychology of reading--explains fundamental aspects of the complex human act of reading--linguistic, psychological, and social--and what is involved in learning to read. Fully updated, it examines... (read more) List Price $53.95 Your price $36.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter J. Ong Publisher Comments This classic work explores the vast differences between oral and literate cultures and offers a brilliantly lucid account of the intellectual, literary and social effects of writing, print and electronic technology.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Victoria (ed.) Fromkin Publisher Comments "Linguistics: An Introduction to Linguistic Theory" is a textbook, written for introductory courses in linguistic theory for undergraduate linguistics majors and first-year graduate students, by twelve major figures in the field, each bringing their... (read more) List Price $85.95 Your price $52.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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