Linguistics

The entry for kvetchn (the verbal form) in Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary reads simply: press, squeeze, pinch; strain...

Bilingualism Provides A Concise And Lively Introduction To Bilingualism As A Social And Linguistic Phenomenon And Explains Its Impact On Individuals And On ...

How is our language affected by our ethnicity, gender, and region? How are our conversations and other interactions structured? How does society view and r...

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The codirector of the MIT Center for Cognitive Science explains how language works, how it differs from thought, why adults have difficulty learning foreign...

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the Neurocognition Of Language Is The First Critical Overview Of The Cognitive Neuroscience Of Language, One Of The Fastest-moving And Most Exciting Areas ...

In Words And Rules, Pinker Explains The Profound Mysteries Of Language By Picking A Deceptively Single Phenomenon And Examining It From Every Angle. The Phe...

This original, entertaining, and surprising book investigates verbal blunders: what they are, what they say about those who make them, and how and why we'v...

Key Terms in Language and Culture is a new collection of 75 short original essays written by leading scholars in linguistic anthropology and related fields...

Contemporary Linguistics is one of the most comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of linguistics, balancing engaging aspects of language study with...

The act of reading is a miracle. Every new reader's brain possesses the extraordinary capacity to rearrange itself beyond its original abilities in order t...

Bill Bryson, who gave glorious voice to The Mother Tongue, now celebrates her magnificent offspring in the book that reveals once and for all how a dusty w...

Writing That Works will help you say what you want to say, with less difficulty and more confidence. Now in its third edition, this completely updated clas...

In Echolalias, Daniel Heller-roazen Reflects On The Many Forms Of Linguistic Forgetfulness. In Twenty-one Concise Chapters, He Moves Between Classical, Medi...

Study Guide for Contemporary Linguistic Analysis: An IntroductionCategories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarLinguistics

Offering a unique pedagogical apparatus, A Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Texts and Interactive Guides provides selections from the most influenti...

Preface -- The Good Red Road -- Anodynes And Amulets -- Keep The Drum Playing -- Recovery And Transformation -- From The Inside: Looking At You -- Physical ...

The Concept Of Heritage Relates To The Ways In Which Contemporary Society Uses The Past As A Social, Political Or Economic Resource. However, Heritage Is Op...

Part I. Essays On Fresh Water Issues -- An Introduction To Global Fresh Water Issues / Peter H. Gleick -- World Fresh Water Resources / Igor A. Shiklomanov ...

Over the past twenty years, geography as an academic discipline has become more and more reflective, asking the key questions 'What are we doing?' 'Why are ...

Ecclesiology (the theology of the church) is a neglected topic in contemporary theology. At a time when the institutional churches are experiencing dramat...

This handbook offers a synopsis of the regular changes that Latin words underwent in the course of their evolution into the modern Romance languages (Italia...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the pu...

In 1513, only a few years before Cortes conquered the Aztec empire, Juan Ponce de Leon and three shiploads of conquistadores landed just south of what is ...

In this ground-breaking new book on the Norteña/Sureña (North/South) youth gang dynamic, cultural anthropologist and linguist Norma Mendoza-Denton looks a...

Did you know that . . . a soldier's biggest social blunder is called jack brew - making yourself a cuppa without making one for anyone else? That twitchers...

Synchronic sociolinguistics has been particularly convincing in its use of quantitative models to demonstrates how 'the present might explain the past'. How...

Written by an international team of leading scholars, this groundbreaking reference work explores the nature of language change and diffusion, and paves th...

George Steiner. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Reference Words, Language & GrammarLinguistics

this Is A Comprehensive Introduction To Theoretical Linguistics. It Presupposes No Previous Knowledge And Terms Are Defined As They Are Introduced; But It...

An Up-to-date Dictionary And A Practical, User-friendly Grammar Guide In One Easily Portable Volume. With Cultural Notes On Life In French-speaking Countrie...

An Insightful Look At Ambigrams--words That Are Unchanged When Inverted Or Reflected--shows How The Shape Of The Letters Can Lend Meaning To The Word. Repri...

Umberto Eco ; Translated By William Weaver. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [117]-119) And Index.Categories: Literature & Fiction History & ...

Geoffrey Nunberg breaks new ground with this fierce and funny narrative of how the political right has ushered in a new world order, aided unwittingly by th...

This book provides a detailed examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe, Africa's best-known and most widely-read author, shortlisted for the 1987 Booker...

This is the first comprehensive treatment of feed-forward neural networks from the perspective of statistical pattern recognition. After introducing the bas...

Grammar in Use Intermediate is a highly successful grammar text known for its clear, concise explanations and innovative format. Ideal for students preparin...

The new edition of this popular course in translation from French into English offers a challenging practical approach to the acquisition of translation sk...

By far the best translation. Faithful to the original Greek text and eminently readable. The notes constitute a commentary in their own right.—Albert Henr...

The Internet Isn't The First Technology To Alter How We Communicate, But It Is Making Our Language Change Faster And In More Interesting Ways Than Ever Befo...

Social Literacies develops new and critical approaches to the understanding of literacy in an international perspective. It represents part of the current t...

This book presents a new interpretation of the history of English. Access to large corpuses of English has allowed scholars to assess the minutiae of ling...

Did you know that when you call someone a pal you're using a word derived from Romany, the gypsy tongue (phal, or brother)? Or that cosmonaut has its origin...

the Only Grammar Book You'll Ever Need Is The Ideal Resource For Everyone Who Wants To Produce Writing That Is Clear, Concise, And Grammatically Excellent....

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English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultur...

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