Linguistics
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Adam’s Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans
$21.99 Add to cartHow language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton–long a leading authority in this field–shows how and why previous attempts to solve that proble
- Author: Bickerton, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0809016478
- Language: English
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The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention
$22.99 Add to cartBlending the spirit of Eats, Shoots & Leaves with the science of The Language Instinct, an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language
Lang- Author: Deutscher, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0805080120
- Language: English
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French, Cajun, Creole, Houma: A Primer on Francophone Louisiana
$29.95 Add to cartIn recent years, ethnographers have recognized south Louisiana as home to perhaps the most complex rural society in North America. More than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identifi
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0807176966
- Language: English
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A Field Manual of Acoustic Phonetics
$37.95 Add to cartThis book provides a practical and easy-to-understand introduction to acoustic speech analysis, primarily aimed at those involved in linguistic analysis and description in the field and at those prepa… [more below]
- Author: Baart, Joan L. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: May 11 2012
- ISBN10: 1556712324
- Language: English
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English for Writing Research Papers
$37.99 Add to cartAt least two-thirds of published scientific papers are written by researchers whose first language is not English
20% of the comments referees make when reviewing papers for possible publication in in… [more below]- Series: English for Academic Research
- Author: Wallwork, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: September 21 2023
- ISBN10: 3031310713
- Language: English
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Sibilance: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartThe word “sibilance” refers to pronunciations of the letter “s,” including the emission of a hissing or whistling sound. As the title of Sally Van Doren’s fourth collection of poetry, the word alerts
- Author: Van Doren, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 84
- Publish Date: September 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180181
- Language: English
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Fifty Words for Snow
$16.95 Read more“A delightful compendium that brings together language, culture and adventure through frozen landscapes as it shares the meanings behind 50 words for snow, gathered from around the globe.” —The Heral… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1783966033
- Language: English
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Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
$27.95 Read moreJust as speech can be acquired, so can it be lost. Individuals can forget words, phrases, even entire languages, and over the course of time speaking communities, too, let go of the tongues that were
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 04 2008
- ISBN10: 1890951501
- Language: English
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Collected Poems and Other Verse
$16.95 Add to cartSt?phane Mallarm? was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets, and a key figure in Modernism. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, pe… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Mallarm?, St?phane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537925
- Language: English
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50 English Coffee Breaks: Short Activities to Improve Your English One Cup at a Time
$14.99 Add to cartTransform your down time into ‘do time’.
The most successful language learners create a habit of studying on a regular basis. 50 English Coffee Breaks makes it easy to master a simple routine of impr- Author: Coffee Break Languages
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1399810413
- Language: English
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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage
$46.99 Add to cartWhy literally shouldn’t be taken literally. Why Americans think home in on something is a mistake and Brits think hone in is. Is it OK to spell OK okay? What’s wrong with hence why? Was Alanis Morrise… [more below]
- Author: Butterfield, Jeremy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: June 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0199661359
- Language: English
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Miss Julie and Other Plays
$10.95 Add to cartThis edition embraces Strindberg’s crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Strindberg, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538042
- Language: English
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Words of the Inuit: A Semantic Stroll Through a Northern Culture
$34.95 Add to cartWords of the Inuit is an important compendium of Inuit culture illustrated through Inuit words. It brings the sum of the author’s decades of experience and engagement with Inuit and Inuktitut to bear
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #7
- Author: Dorais, Louis-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0887558623
- Language: English
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish
$29.99 Add to cartIs it possible to conceive of the American diet without bagels? Or Star Trek without Mr. Spock? Are the creatures in Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are based on Holocaust survivors? And how ha
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1632062623
- Language: English
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Word Nerds Unite!: The Fascinating Stories Behind 200 Words and Phrases
$14.99 Read moreWhy are spectacularly successful movies called blockbusters? Why does “putting your best foot forward” mean you hope to make a good impression? Why is rowdy and prankish behavior called horseplay and
- Author: Garrison, Webb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1400337976
- Language: English
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Sign Language for Everyone: A Basic Course in Communication with the Deaf
$19.99 Add to cart“Listen with your eyes . . .
Sign Language is a method of presenting thoughts via pictures made with one’s hands.”
People are adaptable. This trait is particularly useful when one of the five senses is
- Author: Rice, Cathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 078526986X
- Language: English
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Oresteia
$11.95 Add to cartThe Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy–the inexorable natur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953781X
- Language: English
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Chineasy Everyday: Learning Chinese Through Its Culture
$29.99 Read moreA unique and highly entertaining introduction to the richness of Chinese language, culture, and civilization, built on the groundbreaking and hugely popular Chineasy visual learning method.
To educate
- Author: Shaolan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0062439715
- Language: English
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Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners, Third Edition
$20.00 Add to cartGet the expert instruction and practice needed to take your English skills to the next level
Practice Makes Perfect: Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you take your English grammar s… [more below]- Author: Torres-Gouzerh, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1260453456
- Language: English
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Ruth: A Guide to Reading Biblical Hebrew (an Intermediate Hebrew Reader’s Edition with Exegetical and Syntactical Aids)
$43.75 Read moreMaintain your Hebrew.
Too often, a former Hebrew student is a lapsed Hebrew student. The paradigms, the syntactical forms, and even the alphabet can be hard to recall. The way to make Hebrew stick, li
- Series: Guide to Reading Biblical Hebrew
- Author: Howell, Adam J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1683595572
- Language: English
