Language: history & general works books

3479 books were found.

Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search...

Author: Lynda Mugglestone (Professor of the History of English, Professor of the History of English, University of Oxford)
ISBN: 9780198870159
Format: Hardback
$72.95

Writing a War of Words is the first investigation of a valuable archive of war-time notebooks documenting changes...  Read More >>

Betoota-isms

Betoota-isms

Author: The Betoota Advocate
ISBN: 9781760987749
Format: Paperback
$29.99

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Strategies for Knowledge Elicitation: The Experience of the Russian School of Field Linguistics

Strategies for Knowledge Elicitation: The Experience...

Author: Tatiana B. Agranat ,  Leyli R. Dodykhudoeva
ISBN: 9783030793401
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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

Hässliche Wörter: Hatespeech als Prinzip der neuen Rechten

Hässliche Wörter: Hatespeech als Prinzip der neuen Rechten...

Author: Joachim Scharloth
ISBN: 9783662635018
Format: Paperback
$65.97

Seit dem Wiedererstarken rechter Parteien und Denkweisen erlebt Deutschland ein gesteigertes Maß an Ausgrenzung...  Read More >>

Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats: And Other Meticulously Assembled Lists of Extremely Valuable Nonsense

Euphemisms That Get on My You-Know-Whats: And Other...

Author: Adam Sharp
ISBN: 9781524870102
Format: Hardback
$39.57

"There's one thing that can provide comfort in a world of chaos and confusion: overly specific lists. Ever wondered...  Read More >>

Norm and Ideology in Spoken French: A Sociolinguistic History of Liaison

Norm and Ideology in Spoken French: A Sociolinguistic...

Author: David Hornsby
ISBN: 9783030493028
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This volume offers a diachronic sociolinguistic perspective on one of the most complex and fascinating variable...  Read More >>

Introducing English for Research Publication Purposes

Introducing English for Research Publication Purposes...

Author: John Flowerdew ,  Pejman Habibie (Western University, Canada.)
ISBN: 9780367330583
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This introductory volume provides a comprehensive view of what ERPP encompasses as a scholarly field. This book...  Read More >>

The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An Exploration of Language, People and Geography

The Atlas of Unusual Languages: An Exploration of Language,...

Author: Zoran Nikolic ,  Collins Books
ISBN: 9780008469597
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The ideal gift for anyone interested in language, geography and people. We communicate through the spoken...  Read More >>

Introducing English for Research Publication Purposes

Introducing English for Research Publication Purposes...

Author: John Flowerdew ,  Pejman Habibie (Western University, Canada.)
ISBN: 9780367330590
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This introductory volume provides a comprehensive view of what ERPP encompasses as a scholarly field. This book...  Read More >>

Complete Aramaic: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Aramaic, with Original Texts

Complete Aramaic: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and...

Author: Eric D. Reymond
ISBN: 9781473627765
Format: Paperback
$95.00

Discover a new and effective way to access the world's ancient knowledge. With 24 units covering the key skills...  Read More >>

Libertines and the Law: Subversive Authors and Criminal Justice in Early Seventeenth-Century France

Libertines and the Law: Subversive Authors and Criminal...

Author: Adam Horsley (Lecturer in French, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780197267004
Format: Hardback
$248.95

This study sheds new light on the trials of 'libertine' authors (a term for religious, sexual, social or moral subversion),...  Read More >>

Roll Your Eyes Now

Roll Your Eyes Now

Author: Dave Waldrop ,  Alma Russ
ISBN: 9781665302128
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Puns, aka Dad jokes, are part of some people's every day lives. Dave Waldrop is one of those people. This book is...  Read More >>

Roll Your Eyes Now

Roll Your Eyes Now

Author: Dave Waldrop ,  Alma Russ
ISBN: 9781665302135
Format: Hardback
$43.96

Puns, aka Dad jokes, are part of some people's every day lives. Dave Waldrop is one of those people. This book is...  Read More >>

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners: Preparing Pre-service and In-service Teachers

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners: Preparing...

Author: Luciana C. de Oliveira ,  Marta Civil
ISBN: 9783030483579
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This edited book is about preparing pre-service and in-service teachers to teach secondary-level mathematics to...  Read More >>

Online Sex Talk and the Social World: Mediated Desire

Online Sex Talk and the Social World: Mediated Desire...

Author: Chrystie Myketiak
ISBN: 9783030535810
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book develops a feminist and queer linguistic account of the construction of sex, sexuality, and desire through...  Read More >>

Overlooking Conventions: The Trouble With Linguistic Pragmatism

Overlooking Conventions: The Trouble With Linguistic...

Author: Michael Devitt
ISBN: 9783030706524
Format: Hardback
$263.97

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

The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe

The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities...

Author: Alex Bellos
ISBN: 9781783352197
Format: Paperback
$24.99

From thebestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating,...  Read More >>

African-American English: Structure, History, and Use

African-American English: Structure, History, and Use...

Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene ,  John R. Rickford
ISBN: 9780367760687
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and...  Read More >>

When Greece Flew across the Alps: The Study of Greek in Early Modern Europe

When Greece Flew across the Alps: The Study of Greek...

Author: Federica Ciccolella
ISBN: 9789004179424
Format: Hardback
$409.20

Twelve essays examine the spread of Hellenism in central, northern, and eastern Europe between the sixteenth and...  Read More >>

African-American English: Structure, History, and Use

African-American English: Structure, History, and Use...

Author: Salikoko S. Mufwene ,  John R. Rickford
ISBN: 9780367760724
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and...  Read More >>

Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing: Corpus-based Description and Rhetorical Structure Analysis

Adversative and Concessive Conjunctions in EFL Writing:...

Author: Yan Zhang
ISBN: 9789811578397
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book explores the usage patterns of a group of adversative and concessive conjunctions in English texts written...  Read More >>

Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in Asia. Selected papers from the Tenth International Conference on Missionary Linguistics, Rome, 21–24 March 2018

Missionary Linguistics VI: Missionary Linguistics in...

Author: Otto Zwartjes (Université de Paris, UMR 7597 HTL) ,  Paolo De Troia (Sapienza Università di Roma)
ISBN: 9789027210043
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This volume provides research into the history of the documentation, study and description of Chinese, Japanese,...  Read More >>

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