Language: history & general works books

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Foundations of Shakespeare

Foundations of Shakespeare
Author: Neema Parvini ISBN: 9781788361347 Format: Hardback	$388.12
Foundations of Shakespeare is a comprehensive no-nonsense introductory course on studying Shakespeare's plays. Read More >>

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global

Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global
Author: Laura Spinney ISBN: 9780008626563 Format: Paperback	$24.99
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Journal of Language Relationship: 21/3-4

Journal of Language Relationship: 21/3-4
Author: George Starostin ISBN: 9781463247508 Format: Paperback	$234.96
The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative... Read More >>

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing

The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier,...
Author: Joshua Hammer ISBN: 9781668015452 Format: Paperback	$39.99
An “adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike” (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited... Read More >>

Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography

Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean...
Author: Heidi Craig (University of Toronto) , Laura Estill (St Francis Xavier University) ISBN: 9781009614115 Format: Paperback	$46.58
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Making News in Renaissance Europe

Making News in Renaissance Europe
Author: Brendan Dooley (University College Cork) ISBN: 9781009358811 Format: Paperback	$46.58
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Father Humor: Mastering the Art of the Dad Joke

Father Humor: Mastering the Art of the Dad Joke
Author: Bart King ISBN: 9781423669692 Format: Hardback	$29.99
Father Humor covers every aspect of the most simultaneously loathed and beloved joke form of all time: the pun.... Read More >>

The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume 5: North America and the Caribbean

The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Volume...
Author: Natalie Schilling (Georgetown University, Washington DC) , Derek Denis (University of Toronto) ISBN: 9781009205764 Format: Hardback	$362.25
This volume examines the development of forms of English in North America from the earliest founder populations... Read More >>

Making News in Renaissance Europe

Making News in Renaissance Europe
Author: Brendan Dooley (University College Cork) ISBN: 9781009571791 Format: Hardback	$142.31
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Rogues, Widows and Orphans: Mischief and Misadventures in the World of Books

Rogues, Widows and Orphans: Mischief and Misadventures...
Author: Rebecca Lee ISBN: 9781805221180 Format: Hardback	$42.99
An entertaining romp through bookish mishaps, exposing all the weird, wow! and wtf? moments that the literary world... Read More >>

The Language of Early English Dialect Literature

The Language of Early English Dialect Literature
Author: Alex Broadhead ISBN: 9783032021403 Format: Hardback	$232.85
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National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia

National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South...
Author: Javed Majeed , Sara Marzagora ISBN: 9783032137715 Format: Hardback	$284.60
This book compares how multilingualism is governed, managed, and imagined in nation-states in the Horn of Africa... Read More >>

Caspian Languages and Linguistics: Eight Essays

Caspian Languages and Linguistics: Eight Essays
Author: Alireza Korangy , Zia Khoshsirat ISBN: 9789819513895 Format: Hardback	$362.22
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Doing Pragmatics

Doing Pragmatics
Author: Peter Grundy (Professor Emeritus, Durham University) ISBN: 9781032896113 Format: Paperback	$108.65
Doing Pragmatics is a popular reader-friendly introduction to pragmatics, extending beyond theory to promote an... Read More >>

The New Englishes

The New Englishes
Author: John Platt , Heidi Weber ISBN: 9781041293996 Format: Hardback	$388.12
First published in 1984, The New Englishes explores new varieties of English.It deals with the way New Englishes... Read More >>

Reimagining Creole Communities

Reimagining Creole Communities
Author: Christoph Neuenschwander , Joseph T. Farquharson ISBN: 9781032378091 Format: Hardback	$401.06
This volume undertakes a reimagination of Creole communities in the Caribbean and beyond by addressing the persistent... Read More >>

Doing Pragmatics

Doing Pragmatics
Author: Peter Grundy (Professor Emeritus, Durham University) ISBN: 9781032896120 Format: Hardback	$401.06
Doing Pragmatics is a popular reader-friendly introduction to pragmatics, extending beyond theory to promote an... Read More >>

This Language, A River: A History of English – Second Edition

This Language, A River: A History of English – Second...
Author: K. Aaron Smith , Susan M. Kim ISBN: 9781554816965 Format: Paperback	$139.79
This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language... Read More >>

Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English

Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English...
Author: Ben Yagoda ISBN: 9780691262314 Format: Paperback	$29.99
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Child Disability

Keywords: A Vocabulary of Child Disability
Author: Dan McEvoy ISBN: 9781067604417 Format: Paperback	$89.73
Applying Raymond Williams' critical method to 176 words and phrases from the vocabulary of child disability Read More >>

Te Kaikaukau | The Swimmer: I te Ao o te Reo

Te Kaikaukau \| The Swimmer: I te Ao o te Reo
Author: Witi Ihimaera Smiler ISBN: 9781776712380 Format: Paperback	$77.60
New Zealand’s leading Māori writer decides at eighty to go back and learn his own language – and write about it.... Read More >>

The Emergence and Development of American English

The Emergence and Development of American English
Author: William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (University of Georgia) ISBN: 9781009161237 Format: Paperback	$80.19
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The Emergence and Development of American English

The Emergence and Development of American English
Author: William A. Kretzschmar, Jr. (University of Georgia) ISBN: 9781009161213 Format: Hardback	$245.81
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This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams: A Journey Through the Sharpest, Strangest, and Most Stirring Lines Ever Constructed

This Is a Book of Sentence Diagrams: A Journey Through...
Author: Man Martin ISBN: 9798894142081 Format: Hardback	$29.99
The simplicity of the classic sentence diagram to unpack iconic quotes from books, films, speeches, and beyond,... Read More >>

The Early History of they: Forms, Functions and Etymology

The Early History of they: Forms, Functions and Etymology...
Author: Marcelle Cole ISBN: 9783032056849 Format: Hardback	$116.41
This book challenges the long-held theory that the English pronouns they, their, them are loanwords from Old Norse,... Read More >>

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