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by Alessandro Duranti  Publisher Comments Alessandro Duranti explores the way traditional oratory in a Samoan village is shaped by the needs of the political process and shows how language insulates ceremonial speakers from the perils of everyday confrontation. He proposes a "moral flow... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Isaac Taylor Publisher Comments Volume 1 of 2. Semitic Alphabets. An account of the origin and development of letters. The writing of these volume was undertaken with the intention of compiling a brief account of recent discoveries as to the origin of the alphabet, and its subsequent... (read more) Your price $27.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Wierzbicka Publisher Comments This book develops the dual themes that languages can differ widely in their vocabularies, and are also sensitive indices to the cultures to which they belong. Wierzbicka seeks to demonstrate that every language has "key concepts," expressed in "key... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price $54.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brigitte L Bauer Publisher Comments This book analyzes--in terms of branching--the pervasive reorganization of Latin syntactic and morphological structures: in the development from Latin to French, a shift can be observed from the archaic, left-branching structures (which Latin inherited... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by William H. Calvin Publisher Comments A machine for language? Certainly, say the neurophysiologists, busy studying the language specializations of the human brain and trying to identify their evolutionary antecedents. Linguists such as Noam Chomsky talk about machinelike andquot... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.95 (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 Chrysti M Smith Publisher Comments In phrases ranging from "break a leg" to "shake a stick," Chrysti the Wordsmith digs behind the colorful language to uncover fascinating stories about the history of language itself.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Aafke C J Hulk Publisher Comments The Romance Languages document remarkable variations in subject word order in different constructions, and have various restrictions in their occurrence. No consensus has emerged on what the paramaters are for such variations. This volume does not... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $7.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Brookfield Synopsis One of a series of reference books which is intended as a reference source on writing. The photographs in this book are based on real-life objects shown in close-up detail, mixed with illustrations and integrated text designed to make them accessible at... (read more) Your price $26.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Taylor Publisher Comments This book explores the far-reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to morphology, syntax, and phonology. Providing a clear and... (read more) List Price $49.50 Your price $38.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Wardhaugh Publisher Comments This fully revised textbook is a new edition of Ronald Wardhaugh's popular and accessible "An Introduction to Sociolinguistics,"<BR> Provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to sociolinguistics that reflects new developments in the... (read more) List Price $46.95 Your price $36.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jon Eisenson Publisher Comments This book provides comprehensive coverage of voice production, voice improvement, and articulation. In addition, pertinent material from related disciplines of speech and hearing sciences, linguistics, and phonetics is included. The seventh edition is... (read more) List Price $102.40 Your price $82.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ping Chen Publisher Comments This book describes the development of Modern Chinese from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s.... (read more) List Price $30.99 Your price $24.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Andre Lefevere Publisher Comments "Translation/History/Culture" is a collection of the most important statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over the centuries--power, poetics, language... (read more) Your price $161.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Houghton Mifflin Company Publisher Comments This pocket-sized book contains a wealth of valuable information, including lists of commonly misspelled words, answers to questions of grammar, pointers on writing a term paper with footnotes and bibliography, and many other useful features.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Graddol Publisher Comments Does the language we speak create and sustain a sexist culture? This controversial and exciting proposal has fascinated feminists, psychologists and linguists alike for well over a decade. The authors of Gender Voices explore in a clear and comprehensive... (read more) List Price $52.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Armstrong Lafford Publisher Comments Spanish Second Language Acquisition provides a panoramic overview of previous studies on the acquisition of Spanish as a second or foreign language, the theoretical approaches used in these studies, and the effects of various pedagogical approaches on... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $30.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Idan Landau Synopsis This book offers a new outlook on the derivation and interpretation of control constructions. Bringing together novel data and observations, it argues that Obligatory Control comes in two varieties: Exhaustive or Partial Control, the latter obtaining... (read more) Your price $55.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert D Borsley Publisher Comments Syntactic theory is central to the study of language. This innovative book introduces the ideas that underlie most approaches to syntax and shows how they have been developed within two broad frameworks: Government Binding Theory and Phrase Structure... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Labov Publisher Comments This classic volume, by a well-known linguist, constitutes a systematic introduction to sociolinguistics, unmatched in the clarity and forcefulness of its approach, and to the study of language in its social setting.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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