Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This engaging collection of National Public Radio broadcasts and magazine pieces by one of America's best-known linguists covers the waterfront o...
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Do You Speak American?
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Is the growing influence of Spanish threatening to displace English in the United States? Are America's grammatical standards in serious decline?...
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You Talkin' To Me?: The Unruly History of New York English
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From paddy wagon to rush hour, New York City has given us a number of our popular words and phrases, along the way fashioning a recognizable dial...
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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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Divided By A Common Language: A Guide to British and American English
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Puzzled by signs warning you to “mind the gap” in the London Underground? Wondering what will be on your plate if you order “toad in the hole” in...
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On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The two most popular titles by the noted linguist and critic in one volume—an ideal introduction to his work. On Language features some of Noam ...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nat...
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The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A surprising and entertaining explanation of how the words we use (even the ones we don't notice) reveal our personalities, emotions, and identit...
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Speaking American: How Y'all, Youse, and You Guys Talk: A Visual Guide
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From the creator of the New York Times dialect quiz that ignited conversations about how and why we say the words we say, a stunning and delightf...
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Language, Society and Power: An Introduction
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Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Doing Sociolinguistics: A practical guide to data collection and analysis provides an accessible introduction and guide to the methods of data co...
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
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Sociolingüística y pragmática del español: segunda edición / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /This updated second edition provides a comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While main...
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Honoring Richard Ruiz and his Work on Language Planning and Bilingual Education
PaperbackOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /Richard Ruiz has inspired generations of scholars in language planning and multilingual education with his unique orientations to language as a p...
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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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Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and b...
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Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
HardcoverOriginal price $170.00 - Original price $170.00Original price $170.00$204.99$204.99 - $204.99Current price $204.99| /Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition, perception, and b...
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Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"At once an eloquent memoir, a wide-ranging commentary on cultural diversity, and an expert distillation of the research on language learning, loss...
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell's brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide."--Jill SolowayA...
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The author of the acclaimed Proust and the Squid follows up with a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative book that considers the future of the ...
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American Sign Language Dictionary-Flexi
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"An abridged edition of 'the most comprehensive and clearly written dictionary of sign language ever published.'" -- Los Angeles TimesDeaf since th...
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme--And Other Oddities of the English Language
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99Original price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99Current price $13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /For anyone who has ever wondered why English is so weird, an entertaining and expert tour of the most puzzling parts of our language.Maybe you've...
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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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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulC...
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