Linguistics
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Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order
$37.00 Add to cartSpinoza’s Ethics is one of the most significant texts of the early modern period, important to history, philosophy, Jewish studies and religious studies. It had a major influence on Enlightenment thin… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Author: Kisner, Matthew J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1107655633
- Language: English
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Linguistics & Biblical Interpretation
$44.99 Add to cartHow do texts acquire meaning? How is the meaning communicated to the reader? The task of effective biblical interpretation begins with linguistics. In this introductory text on the use of linguistics
- Author: Cotterell, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: January 27 1989
- ISBN10: 0830817514
- Language: English
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The English Language: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today?
In this Very Short Introduction- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Horobin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0198709250
- Language: English
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English Grammar Drills, Second Edition
$31.00 Add to cartPublisher’s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.
Get on the F… [more below]- Author: Lester, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1260116174
- Language: English
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In Search of the Indo-Europeans
$34.95 Add to cartAn archaeological and linguistic monograph on the origins and expansion of the Indo-European
- Author: Mallory, J. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0500276161
- Language: English
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Four Major Plays
$13.95 Add to cartIn his four last plays (Blood Wedding, Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, Dona Rosita the Spinster) Federico Garc? Lorca offered his disturbed and disturbing personal vision to Spanish audiences of th… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Garc?a Lorca, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537518
- Language: English
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Grammar: 1001 Practice Questions for Dummies (+ Free Online Practice)
$29.99 Add to cartLearn to dot your I’s and cross your T’s with this hands-on grammar practice
The rules of grammar can seem abstract and confusing. But putting them into practice will help you understand and retain gr
- Author: Woods, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1119883741
- Language: English
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America’s Lingua Franca
$17.99 Read more“Superb.” —Steven Pinker
“An explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration. . . . McWhorter demonstrates the ‘legitimacy’ of Black English by uncovering its complexity and sophistication… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1942658583
- Language: English
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Talkin’ Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
$25.00 Add to cartAre you considered a “dingbatter,” or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?
Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little “sigogglin,” or crooked?
Do you enjoy spending time with yo… [more below]- Author: Wolfram, Walt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1469629992
- Language: English
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Ntc’s Dictionary of Latin and Greek Origins
$29.00 Add to cartThis unique reference equips students with vocabulary skills that will last a lifetime. Students study Latin and Greek roots and learn the huge number of English words that derive from them. The impre… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 1997
- ISBN10: 0844283215
- Language: English
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Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals about the Mind
$22.99 Add to cartImagine a village where everyone “speaks” sign language. Just such a village — an isolated Bedouin community in Israel with an unusually high rate of deafness — is at the heart of Talking Hands: Wha… [more below]
- Author: Fox, Margalit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743247132
- Language: English
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Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
$32.00 Add to cartWhether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning — a uniquely human magic trick in which you vibrate your voca… [more below]
- Author: Bergen, Benjamin K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0465028292
- Language: English
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Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor’s me
- Author: Wallace, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 10 2010
- ISBN10: 0231151578
- Language: English
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Languages: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow many languages are there? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? In this Very Short Introduction, eminent linguist Stephen Anderson addresses such questi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Anderson, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0199590591
- Language: English
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On the National Language: The Poetry of America’s Endangered Tongues
$50.00 Read moreIn a groundbreaking project turned into a national touring exhibition, endangered-language speaker, poet, and photojournalist B. A. Van Sise worked with endangered language speakers, learners, and rev… [more below]
- Author: Van Sise, B. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0764368141
- Language: English
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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
$14.99 Add to cartThe English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It’s where Latin, Greek, and Germanic roots are shredded apart and stitched unce… [more below]
- Author: Zafarris, Jess
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1399808214
- Language: English
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The Art of Writing: Lu Chi’s Wen Fu
$16.00 Add to cartWritten in the third century, this is one of the earliest Chinese works about the use of language, preceded only by the Ta Hsueh (Great Learning) of Confucius. Written by Lu Chi, a soldier-poet, the W
- Author: Lu Chi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571314121
- Language: English
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Sister Bernadette’s Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences
$18.99 Add to cartA delightfully offbeat history of the art and science of sentence diagramming by a veteran copyeditor and writer. Grumpy grammarians, crossword-puzzle aficionados, and lovers of language will apprecia… [more below]
- Author: Florey, Kitty Burns
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 05 2007
- ISBN10: 0156034433
- Language: English
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Errors in English and Ways to Correct Them
$14.99 Add to cartFilled with hundreds of specific examples and organized into a coherent framework of practical concepts that can be applied by managers and entrepreneurs at all levels, Built to Last provides a master… [more below]
- Author: Shaw, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0064610446
- Language: English
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A Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingualism
$19.95 Add to cartIn this accessible guide to bilingualism, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This new edition includes more information on bilingualis… [more below]
- Series: Parents’ and Teachers’ Guides #18
- Author: Baker, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 08 2014
- ISBN10: 1783091592
- Language: English
