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The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
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The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
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The Sound of Writing
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The Story of Spanish
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The authors of The Story of French are back with a new linguistic history of the Spanish language and its progress around the globe.Just how did ...
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The Translation Studies Reader
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
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Trask's Historical Linguistics
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Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation
PaperbackOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric lan...
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What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Addressing one of the most pressing cultural questions of our generation, Dennis Baron reveals the untold story of how we got from he and she to ...
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What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“If you want to know why more people are asking ‘what’s your pronoun?’ then you (singular or plural) should read this book.” —Joe Moran, New York...
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Wheelock's Latin, 7th Edition
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When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge
HardcoverOriginal price $135.00 - Original price $135.00Original price $135.00$156.99$156.99 - $156.99Current price $156.99| /It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within ou...
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Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language
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Yooper Talk: Dialect as Identity in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Upper Peninsula of Michigan--known as "the U P"--is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and la...
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