Linguistics
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Dear Fellow Time-Binder: Letters on General Semantics
$12.00 Add to cartThis is a series of short summaries and brief overviews of
many main ideas within general semantics, all couched in the style of
personal letters. It is designed to give people an intimate view into
many
- Author: Mayer, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1970164166
- Language: English
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From Lying to Perjury: Linguistic and Legal Perspectives on Lies and Other Falsehoods
$27.99 Add to cartThis volume provides new insights on lying and (intentionally) misleading in and out of the courtroom, a timely topic for scholarship and society. Not all deceptive statements are lies; not every lie … [more below]
- Series: Foundations in Language and Law [fll] #3
- Author: Horn, Laurence R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 419
- Publish Date: November 03 2023
- ISBN10: 3111356884
- Language: English
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New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking
$71.50 Add to cartNew Directions Second edition is a thematic reading and writing-skills text for advanced learners that bridges the gap between ESL and college writing courses. New Directions is a thematic reading/wri… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Academic Writing Collection
- Author: Gardner, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0521541727
- Language: English
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Machine Translation
$40.00 Read moreA concise, nontechnical overview of the development of machine translation, including the different approaches, evaluation issues, and major players in the industry.
The dream of a universal translatio
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Poibeau, Thierry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0262534215
- Language: English
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Revised and Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartSeth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Ler… [more below]
- Author: Lerer, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0231174470
- Language: English
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The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing
$18.99 Add to cart“A splendid book for journalists (new or old), fiction writers, essayists, and critics. But it could also be of great use to the intelligent common reader, the man or woman who wonders why it’s imposs
- Author: Flaherty, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0061689157
- Language: English
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Contact Languages and Music
$55.00 Add to cartLanguage and music are connected in many
ways. As social and cultural practices, they have been intertwined in
multiple ways. Musical and linguistic practices are often intertwined to
express distinct an… [more below]- Author: Hollington, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 9766409234
- Language: English
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Scribblers, Sculptors, and Scribes: A Companion to Wheelock’s Latin and Other Introductory Textbooks
$21.99 Add to cartFrom one of the country’s leading Latinists, this reader is the perfect complement to any Latin program, and the first collection of entirely authentic classical Latin texts that beginning students, f
- Author: LaFleur, Richard A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0061259187
- Language: English
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from Npr’s Fresh Air
$16.99 Add to cartThis engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America’s best-known linguists covers the waterfront of contemporary culture by taking stock of its words and
- Author: Nunberg, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0618116036
- Language: English
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Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartFor anyone who enjoys reading memoirs–or is thinking about writing one–this collection offers a master class from nine distinguished authors, including Annie Dillard, Frank McCourt, and others.
The … [more below]
- Author: Baker, Russell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 20 1998
- ISBN10: 0395901502
- Language: English
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The Story of French
$32.00 Add to cartWhy does everything sound better if it’s said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at on
- Author: Nadeau, Jean-Benoit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 08 2008
- ISBN10: 0312341849
- Language: English
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Bringing Our Languages Home: Language Revitalization for Families
$27.00 Add to cartThroughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass on endangered languages to their children. Elaina Albers of Northern California holds a … [more below]
- Author: Hinton, Leanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2013
- ISBN10: 159714200X
- Language: English
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Tefl Lesson Plans for Dummies
$22.99 Add to cartInstant English lessons – learn in a flash
TEFL Lesson Plans For Dummies is a ready-made course manual for TEFL teachers. With fully fleshed-out lessons, activities, tools, games, and resources, this
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: Maxom, Michelle M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1118764277
- Language: English
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
$16.95 Add to cartNoam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist
- Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy
- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 0231175973
- Language: English
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The Logic of Sense
$26.95 Add to cartConsidered one of the most important works of one of France’s foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonder
- Series: European Perspectives
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: June 10 1993
- ISBN10: 0231059833
- Language: English
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A Date with Language
$40.00 Read moreA collection of 366 facts about language to enliven each day of the year.
In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events, and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection- Author: Crystal, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1851246118
- Language: English
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
$28.99 Add to cartWhat’s the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What’s the correct pronunciation of … [more below]
- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 13 2000
- ISBN10: 0195135083
- Language: English
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Speechwriting in Theory and Practice
$37.99 Add to cartThis book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting. The combination of theory and practice with ca… [more below]
- Series: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
- Author: Kjeldsen, Jens E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 3030036847
- Language: English
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Better Sentence Writing in 30 Minutes a Day
$14.95 Read moreDo your sentences run longer than a page? Or do they hang in the air, waiting for a subject, an object or some punctuation to finish them off?
This easy-to-use guide to sentence writing not only teach- Series: Better English
- Author: Campbell, Dianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 15 1995
- ISBN10: 1564142035
- Language: English
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Ingles Completo
$18.99 Read moreStudents of English whose first language is Spanish will find this book ideal for study and test preparation. Following an introductory chapter that offers study advice and tips on correct English pro… [more below]
- Series: Barron’s Foreign Language Guides
- Author: Kendris, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1438010494
- Language: English
