Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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The American Language
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /This groundbreaking study clarifies the differences between British and American English and defines the distinguishing characteristics of Americ...
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The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British 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| /CHOSEN BY THE ECONOMIST AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAn American linguist teaching in England explores the sibling rivalry between British and Ameri...
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, revised and expanded edition
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Seth 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 ...
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme-And Other Oddities of the English Language
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Maybe you've been speaking English all your life, or maybe you learned it later on. But whether you use it just well enough to get your daily bus...
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Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn’t speak it—only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluen...
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The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Forget the language instinct—this is the story of how we make up language as we go Language is perhaps humanity’s most astonishing capacity—and o...
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Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /A New York Times Editor's ChoiceAn Economist Best Book of 2010A Financial Times Best Book of 2010A Library Journal Best Book of 2010The debate is...
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Words and Rules: The Ingredients Of Language
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Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
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The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creat...
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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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Beginning Old English / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /This basic introduction to Old English is an essential guide for students with little or no linguistic knowledge. Unlike other textbooks on the s...
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Principles of Historical Linguistics
PaperbackOriginal price $50.99 - Original price $50.99Original price $50.99$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Historical linguistic theory and practice consist of a large number of chronological "layers" that have been accepted in the course of time and h...
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Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$64.99$64.99 - $64.99Current price $64.99| /Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers, Second Edition reveals the trajectory of the Greek language from the Mycenaean period of the s...
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Romance Languages: A Historical Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $59.99 - Original price $59.99Original price $59.99$67.99$67.99 - $67.99Current price $67.99| /Ti Alkire and Carol Rosen trace the changes that led from colloquial Latin to five major Romance languages, those which ultimately became nationa...
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The Greek & Latin Roots of English
PaperbackOriginal price $51.00 - Original price $51.00Original price $51.00$67.99$67.99 - $67.99Current price $67.99| /The sixth edition expands the introduction to each chapter, and contains revised exercises in each chapter that reinforce and expand both vocabul...
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The Translation Studies Reader
PaperbackOriginal price $56.95 - Original price $56.95Original price $56.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /The Translation Studies Reader provides a definitive survey of the most important and influential developments in translation theory and research...
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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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Trask's Historical Linguistics
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$53.99$53.99 - $53.99Current price $53.99| /Trask's Historical Linguistics provides an accessible introduction to historical linguistics - the study of language change over time. This engag...
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and ...
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English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of a Language
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Any history of English starts with the evidence its narrators select, the historical periods they focus on, and the guiding principles and framewor...
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Take My Word for It: A Dictionary of English Idioms
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Three centuries of English idioms--their unusual origins and unexpected interpretations To pay through the nose. Raining cats and dogs. By hook or ...
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The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this exhilarating celebration of human ingenuity and perseverance--published all around the world--a trailblazing Italian scholar sifts through ...
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