Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Language is always changing, but the way English is spoken today rubs many of us the wrong way. Whether it’s the use of literally to mean “figura...
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /“An essay in origins … as theoretical as Hawking and Gorst in trying to see into the deep past. McWhorter is a clear and witty writer.”— Harper’s...
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A New York Times bestseller One of the preeminent linguists of our time examines the realms of language that are considered shocking and taboo in o...
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Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing -- not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and wor...
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammarWhy do we say “I am reading a catalog...
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