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by Ralph Fasold  Publisher Comments This accessible new textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.... (read more)  List Price $53.50 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by George Steiner Publisher Comments When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic investigation since the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott F. Mclaughlin Publisher Comments Introduction to Language Development, 2nd Edition, provides the essential terms, concepts, theories, and observations that define our understanding of language development. This text integrates the foundational elements of language development including... (read more) List Price $96.75 Your price $66.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Crystal Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-479) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $43.50 Your price $29.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah Tannen Publisher Comments Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charlie Lopez Publisher Comments Es un fascinante viaje a traves de los origenes e historias de mas de quinientos terminos de uso cotidiano. Charlie Lopez se vale de la etimologia para revelar vinculos insospechados entre muchos vocablos conocidos y personajes historicos, de ficcion... (read more) Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walt Wolfram Publisher Comments As many visitors to Ocracoke will attest, the island's vibrant dialect is one of its most distinctive cultural features. In "Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks," Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes present a fascinating account of the Ocracoke brogue... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Myriam Bras Publisher Comments This volume addresses contemporary issues in the semantics and the pragmatics of discourse and dialogue. Collected papers aim at providing insights on different theoretical approaches, all of them in the dynamic semantics tradition, such as Dynamic... (read more) Your price $107.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gergory Hughes Publisher Comments This book traces the remarkable reconfigurations that English lexis has undergone in the past millennium. The vocabulary is studied as an indicator of social change, a symbol reflecting different social dynamics between speech communities, on models of... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price $43.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald W Foster Publisher Comments From the professor who invented literary forensics--and fingered Joe Klein as the author of Primary Colors--comes the inside story of how he solves his most challenging cases Don Foster is the world's first literary detective. Realizing that everyone's... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gyorgy Kepes Publisher Comments Noted painter, designer, theoretician analyzes effect of visual language on structure of human consciousness: perception of line and form, perspective, much more. Over 300 photos, drawings and illustrations.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Maria Escobar Publisher Comments Written in Spanish, this introduction to Spanish linguistics covers the structure, history and dialects of the Spanish language.... (read more) List Price $58.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Svenonius Publisher Comments This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (works like "it" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $21.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Livia Publisher Comments This pioneering collection of previously unpublished articles on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender language combines queer theory and feminist theory with the latest thinking on language and gender. The book expands the field well beyond the study... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price $51.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrew Radford Publisher Comments Self-contained introduction to linguistics, offering a unique approach to language from a variety of perspectives.... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price $26.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Parker Publisher Comments Linguistics for Non-Linguists, Fourth Edition, is a highly readable introductory text that presents students with the basic elements of linguistics in a clear and concise style that any beginner will understand. This newly revised edition continues to... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Lass Publisher Comments 'A broad range of competing theories, analytical strategies and notational systems are surveyed in a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of sound structure.'... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price $51.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ralph W. Fasold Publisher Comments A companion to the author's Sociolinguistics of Society, this textbook, examines the influence of social interaction in language use and discusses a variety of facts about language from the commonplace to the exotic.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $38.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joel C. Kuipers Publisher Comments A study of the effects of the spread of Indonesian on local ritual speech on Sumba island.... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price $30.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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