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Power of Babel a Natural History of Lang by John Mcwhorter Synopsis This text provides a guided tour of languages, aiming to be at once both thought-provoking and entertaining. Examining such things as the way in which Yiddish has been influenced by the grammar of Polish, and how English absorbed French at two stages of... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Aping Language by Joel Wallman Publisher Comments This book is a critique of the experiments of recent years that tried to teach language to apes. The achievements of these animals are compared with the natural development of language, both spoken and signed forms, in children. It is argued that the... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Call a Spade a Spade by Wolfgang Mieder Publisher Comments This book is an attempt to trace the origin, history, dissemination, and meaning of the well-known proverbial expression "to call a spade a spade." The first four chapters discuss the previous scholarship on this classical phrase turned proverb,... (read more) Your price $8.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy #80: Resource-Sensitivity, Binding and Anaphora by Geert Jan M Kruijff Publisher Comments The structure and properties of any natural language expression depend on its component sub-expressions - "resources" - and relations among them that are sensitive to basic structural properties of order, grouping, and multiplicity. Resource-sensitivity... (read more) List Price $130.00 Your price $59.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Communicative Competence of Young Children: A Modular Approach (Studies in Language & Linguistics) by Susan Foster Cohen Publisher Comments Incorporating a wide range of research, including work in formal linguistics, psychology and anthropology, this exciting analysis examines the differing theoretical persuasions in the field of child language study, and the kinds of debates these... (read more) List Price $35.20 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Accents of English #02: The British Isles by John Wells Publisher Comments Accents of English is about the way English is pronounced by different people in different places.... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing Systems (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics) by Florian Coulmas Publisher Comments This textbook introduces the major writing systems of the world - from cuneiform to English spelling.... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270).... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list CSLI Lecture Notes #97: Mixed Categories in the Hierarchical Lexicon by Robert P Malouf Publisher Comments This book presents a novel analysis of mixed category constructions in various languages.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language Instinct by Steven Pinker Publisher Comments Penguin's lead non-fiction title is Stephen Pinker's study of the history of language which, he argues, is as innate to humans as flying is to geese. "Groundbreaking, exhilarating, fun ... Pinker debunks with panache, cuts through the confusion of jargon,... (read more) Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Linguistics on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Learning Through Language in Early Childhood (Open Linguistics) by Clare Painter Publisher Comments The child's changing language is examined in terms of its role in interpreting four key domains of experience: the world of things, the world of events, the world of semiosis (including the inner world of cognition) and the construal of cause and effect.... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price $21.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Text, Role and Context: Developing Academic Literacies (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) by Ann M Johns Publisher Comments This text explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within academic contexts. The paperback edition explores fundamental issues relating to student literacies and instructor roles and practices within... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $23.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Guide To the Worlds Languages Volume 1 Classificat by Merritt Ruhlen Publisher Comments This is the first of three pathbreaking volumes that will constitute a wide-ranging analytical guide to the world's approximately 5,000 languages. The volumes are written for both linguists and general readers, and this first volume in particular assumes... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language by Patricia Hanna Publisher Comments Proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $12.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Glossary of Historical Linguistics by Lyle Campbell Book News Annotation Campbell and Mixco (both linguistics, U. of Utah) define, explain, and provide examples of use for words and phrases encountered in studying how languages change. Many of the terms are also used in other fields, but some of these have specific... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language by Stephen R Anderson Publisher Comments Can animals be taught a human language and use it to communicate? Or is human language unique to human beings, just as many complex behaviors of other species are uniquely theirs? This engrossing book explores communication and cognition in animals and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $9.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Phonology of Portuguese by Maria Helena Mateus Publisher Comments In this book, the authors provide an accurate description of the phonological system of Portuguese, comparing the main phenomena of the two most widely extended varieties of the language within the light of current phonological theories. This book's... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unorthodox Views: Reflections on Reality, Truth, and Meaning in Current Social, Cultural, and Critical Discourse (Contributions to the Study of World Literature #111) by James L. Battersby Publisher Comments Much of contemporary critical theory holds that meaning is relative and subjective. This book scrutinizes the principal assumptions and beliefs about mind, language, meaning, truth, and reality governing current debate and discussion not only in literary... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introducing Phonetics & Phonology by Mike Davenport Publisher Comments This book provides a basic introduction to the fundamental concepts on phonetics and phonology, the foundation of most courses in linguistics. The reader is introduced first to articulatory and acoustic phonetics, and then follows a smooth progression in... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Study of Language 2ND Edition by George Yule Publisher Comments This new edition of The Study of Language incorporates many changes that reflect developments in language study over the past decade.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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