Language: history & general works books

3390 books were found.

Establishing a Mechanism-Based Framework for the Corpus-Informed Analysis of Multi-Word Discourse Markers

Establishing a Mechanism-Based Framework for the Corpus-Informed...

Author: Jan-Friso Heeren
ISBN: 9783658395063
Format: Paperback
$116.41

Considering three linguistic dimensions, this approach consists of six mechanisms: Discursivization & Scope Extension...  Read More >>

Auto- und Heterostereotypie im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts: Linguistische, literaturwissenschaftliche, historische und politikwissenschaftliche Perspektiven

Auto- und Heterostereotypie im Europa des 19. Jahrhunderts:...

Author: Annamária Fábián ,  Armin Owzar
ISBN: 9783662652862
Format: Paperback
$237.57

Mittels inter-, trans- und multidisziplinärer Ansätze behandeln die Autorinnen und Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes...  Read More >>

Overlooking Conventions: The Trouble With Linguistic Pragmatism

Overlooking Conventions: The Trouble With Linguistic...

Author: Michael Devitt
ISBN: 9783030706555
Format: Paperback
$142.29

This book criticizes the methodology of the recent semantics-pragmatics debate in the theory of language and proposes...  Read More >>

Index, A History of the

Index, A History of the

Author: Dennis Duncan
ISBN: 9780141989662
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A story of ambition, obsession and alphabetical order Most of us give little thought to the back of the book -...  Read More >>

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

Author: Hana Videen
ISBN: 9781788166119
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English.  Read More >>

A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia: More than an Encyclopaedia?

A Discursive Perspective on Wikipedia: More than an...

Author: Susanne Kopf
ISBN: 9783031110238
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive guide to Wikipedia for researchers and students of linguistics, discourse...  Read More >>

No F*cks Given: Naughty Words to Live by

No F*cks Given: Naughty Words to Live by

Author: Sarah Knight
ISBN: 9780316490856
Format: Hardback
$52.77

"A beautifully-packaged collection of inspirational quotes with a hilariously explicit twist from Sarah Knight's...  Read More >>

Public Relations and the Digital: Professional Discourse and Change

Public Relations and the Digital: Professional Discourse...

Author: Clea Bourne
ISBN: 9783031139550
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book takes a people-centred approach to the ever-fluid and rapidly-transforming professional world of public...  Read More >>

Politics and the English Language

Politics and the English Language

Author: George Orwell ,  D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781851246021
Format: Hardback
$19.99

This essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. In it, Orwell argues that when political discourse...  Read More >>

Function and Class in Linguistic Description: The Taxonomic Foundations of Grammar

Function and Class in Linguistic Description: The Taxonomic...

Author: Mário Alberto Perini
ISBN: 9783030781750
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book deals with the traditional problem of the classification of linguistic units, with a primary focus on...  Read More >>

On the Tip of My Tongue: The perfect word for every life moment

On the Tip of My Tongue: The perfect word for every...

Author: Tom Read Wilson
ISBN: 9780711276673
Format: Hardback
$27.99

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Philippine English: Development, Structure, and Sociology of English in the Philippines

Philippine English: Development, Structure, and Sociology...

Author: Ariane Macalinga Borlongan
ISBN: 9781138370760
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This book is a reference on the history, sociology, and linguistic structure of Philippine English. It offers readers...  Read More >>

A History of Russia in 100 Words

A History of Russia in 100 Words

Author: Alexander Tulloch
ISBN: 9781851245918
Format: Hardback
$43.96

Crammed full with both historical and etymological information, this book also includes fascinating facts about...  Read More >>

The English Language Before England: An Epigraphic Account

The English Language Before England: An Epigraphic Account...

Author: Bernard Mees (Independent scholar, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032214177
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This pioneering work explores epigraphic evidence for the development of English before the Anglo-Saxon period,...  Read More >>

Philosophical Semiotics: The Coming into Being of the World of Meaning

Philosophical Semiotics: The Coming into Being of the...

Author: Yiheng Zhao ,  Xiaoli Fang
ISBN: 9789811930560
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book attempts to solve the question whether semiotics is a methodology as is generally held and if the studies...  Read More >>

Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2021/ Bibliographie Linguistique de l’année 2021: and Supplement for Previous Years / et complement des années précédentes

Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2021/ Bibliographie...

Author: Anne Aarssen ,  René Genis
ISBN: 9789004212701
Format: Hardback
$1898.16

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Expositio Notarum

Expositio Notarum

Author: A. C. Dionisotti (King's College London)
ISBN: 9781316514795
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This unique, unpublished text offers a juxtaposition of the classical and the late antique Roman world in a new...  Read More >>

The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk

The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk...

Author: Sverker Johansson ,  Frank Perry
ISBN: 9781529411416
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins...  Read More >>

Sabre Prattling: The Language of the Battlefield

Sabre Prattling: The Language of the Battlefield

Author: Andrew Rigsby
ISBN: 9781913894078
Format: Paperback
$33.61

English is liberally populated with phrases associated with firearms and conflict going back to the 14th Century....  Read More >>

English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of a Language

English Begins at Jamestown: Narrating the History of...

Author: Tim William Machan (Mary Lee Duda Professor of Literature, Mary Lee Duda Professor of Literature, University of Notre Dame)
ISBN: 9780198846369
Format: Hardback
$71.13

English Begins at Jamestown explores how people tell and have told the story of English, from its Indo-European...  Read More >>

Narrative Persuasion. A Cognitive Perspective on Language Evolution

Narrative Persuasion. A Cognitive Perspective on Language...

Author: Francesco Ferretti
ISBN: 9783031092053
Format: Hardback
$232.85

The study of the transition from animal communication to language addresses both the selective pressures that led...  Read More >>

The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the United Kingdom

The Impact of Plain Language on Legal English in the...

Author: Christopher Williams
ISBN: 9780367457297
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume offers insights into the ways in which plain language has influenced the language of the law in the...  Read More >>

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