Language: history & general works books

This book examines argumentative situations as they develop in different cultures and language groups. It considers...  Read More >>

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This book stems primarily from the intention to make public the seminar entitled ""Narratives and Cultural Psychology""...  Read More >>

An exciting and up-to date book on endangered languages of Northeast Asia both from the emic and etic perspective....  Read More >>

Love it or hate it, the exclamation mark has been with us from Beowulf to the spam email - an enthusiastic history...  Read More >>

This book presents a case study on lexical error analysis in the translation products of Arab English majors at...  Read More >>

This volume provides an overview of experimental methods, approaches, and techniques used by field linguists of...  Read More >>

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of...  Read More >>

Lost and Found Voices explores how four gay writers – Gombrowicz, Pereleshin, Taïa, and Mogutin – use language and...  Read More >>

With contributions from a global team of scholars, this fascinating book engages with numerous disciplinary perspectives...  Read More >>

A celebration of all the weird and wonderful books to be found at an antiquarian bookshop.  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 is a witty and chatty curated list of words for everyday life encounters.  Read More >>