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by Fern L. Johnson  Publisher Comments Speaking Culturally examines the changing cultural demographics of the United States from a linguistic perspective. Fern L Johnson illuminates the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans.... (read more)  List Price $53.95 Your price $41.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Samuel D. Epstein Publisher Comments This book presents a Minimalist analysis of syntactic relations. The authors argue that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance, and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building couched... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jane Warren Publisher Comments Awarded the 2008 Pierre Savard prize by the International Council for Canadian Studies! 'The Pierre Savard Awards are designed to recognize and promote each year outstanding scholarly monographs on a Canadian topic. The awards form part of a... (read more) List Price $80.00 Your price $69.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Fox Publisher Comments The Structure of German is a description of the major features of German according to the principles of modern linguistics. This second edition represents full updates of aspects of German phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $45.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donna Jo Napoli Publisher Comments Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Merritt Ruhlen Publisher Comments Just as archaeologists study fossils and ancient artifacts for clues about mankind's origins, linguistic researchers today are sifting through word roots and grammatical conventions and coming up with some startling revelations about our beginnings. In... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 Mark Aronoff Book News Annotation While this handbook might seem comprehensive by itself, it is just one of nine Blackwell Handbooks on child language, phonological theory, sociolinguistics, and contemporary syntactic theory. This volume, is however, the broadest in scope, featuring... (read more) Your price $127.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by L Sue Baugh Publisher Comments Perplexed by prepositions?Stymied by semicolons?Solve the puzzle of good grammar. A quick reference for people with grammar questions and an excellent primer for anyone learning the basics, Essentials of English Grammar features a glossary of grammar... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Chrysti M Smith Publisher Comments In words ranging from lollygag to quack, and phrases ranging from "break a leg" to "shake a stick" and from "adam's apple" to "trip the light fantastic," Chrysti the Wordsmith digs behind the colorful language to uncover fascinating stories about the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T Acton Publisher Comments This book results from a collaboration between activists and academics. The editors believe that if grammar is to become politically important, then educated people must receive some grounding in a scientifically based descriptive linguistics before they... (read more) Your price $38.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cecilia Poletto Publisher Comments This work investigates the syntax of the higher portion of the functional structure of the clause using comparative data from hundreds of Northern Italian dialects.... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy Bonvillain Publisher Comments Using data from cultures and languages throughout the world to highlight both similarities and differences in human languages--this text explores the many interconnections among language, culture, and communicative meaning. It examines the multi-faceted... (read more) List Price $74.25 Your price $48.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael F. Opitz Publisher Comments Here at last is a theoretically sound, delightfully readable alternative to commercial phonics kits. Rhymes and Reasons is a smart, up-to-date, all-in-one guide to phonological awarenesswhat it is, what it isnt, and the best practices for teaching it... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Russ Mcdonald Publisher Comments Written in a lucid, non-technical style, the book starts with the story of how the English language changed throughout the sixteenth century. Subsequent chapters define Shakespeare's main artistic tools and illustrate their poetic and theatrical... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $27.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clare Mar-molinero Publisher Comments "The Spanish Speaking World" explores a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the Spanish language and its role in societies around the world. Clare Mar-Molinero begins with a discussion of the position of Spanish as a world language, giving... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $38.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Brenneis Publisher Comments The Matrix of Language introduces students and other readers to recent debates in the study of language and culture. The articles in this anthology, selected for their readability, present a range of methodological approaches and well-known case studies... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Janis B Nuckolls Publisher Comments Sound-symbolism occurs when words resemble the sounds associated with the phenomena they attempt to describe, rather than an arbitrary representation. For example the word raven is arbitrary in that it does not resemble a raven; cuckoo, however, is sound... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary Talbot Publisher Comments This is an up-to-date textbook in the growing area of language and gender. It will be popular with students for its accessibility and with teachers for the range and depth it achieves in a single volume. The book contains detailed discussion of work in... (read more) List Price $38.95 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by P.h. Matthews Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-129) and index.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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