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Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2017 / / Bibliographie Linguistique de l'annee 2017: and Supplement for Previous Years / et complement des annees precedentes

Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2017 / / Bibliographie...

Author: Anne Aarssen ,  Rene Genis
ISBN: 9789004339095
Format: Hardback
$2072.40

With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a state-of-the-art subject and language classification, refined through...  Read More >>

Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations: New Essays on §§1-88

Finding One’s Way Through Wittgenstein’s Philosophical...

Author: Emmanuel Bermon ,  Jean-Philippe Narboux
ISBN: 9783319875743
Format: Paperback
$263.97

This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s master opus, by taking a new...  Read More >>

Out Woop-Woop

Out Woop-Woop

Author: Melva Graham
ISBN: 9780648172635
Format: Paperback
$21.99

A humorous glossary of Australian slang and terminology.  Read More >>

Rhetoric at the University of Chicago

Rhetoric at the University of Chicago

Author: James P. Beasley
ISBN: 9781433150890
Format: Hardback
$318.38

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The Pointless Rules of English and How to Follow Them

The Pointless Rules of English and How to Follow Them...

Author: M. Amelia Eikli ,  Lindsey Williams
ISBN: 9781912159055
Format: Paperback
$39.60

A language and grammar interest book giving guidance on linguistics and writing.  Read More >>

English-Medium Instruction from an English as a Lingua Franca Perspective: Exploring the Higher Education Context

English-Medium Instruction from an English as a Lingua...

Author: Kumiko Murata (Waseda University, Japan)
ISBN: 9780815395171
Format: Hardback
$315.00

English is increasingly used as a lingua franca (ELF) in communicative situations the world over with the acceleration...  Read More >>

The Slang Dictionary - Etymological, Historical and Anecdotal - A New Edition - Revised and Corrected, With Many Additions.

The Slang Dictionary - Etymological, Historical and...

Author: Anon
ISBN: 9781528705868
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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Teaching of Culture in English as an International Language: An Integrated Model

Teaching of Culture in English as an International Language:...

Author: Shen Chen (University of Newcastle, Australia) ,  Thi Thuy Le (Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam)
ISBN: 9781138493728
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Exploring questions of why, what, and how to best teach English as an international language (EIL) and cultures,...  Read More >>

Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language

Swearing Is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad...

Author: Emma Byrne
ISBN: 9781781255780
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The science of swearing: from neuroscience to swearing apes, why we swear, what it does to us and why it's important....  Read More >>

Magnyfycence: A Moral Play

Magnyfycence: A Moral Play

Author: John Skelton ,  Robert Lee Ramsay
ISBN: 9781138310704
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1906, this edition of Magnyfycence aimed to highlight the true significance of the play within...  Read More >>

The Middle English Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus

The Middle English Harrowing of Hell and Gospel of Nicodemus...

Author: William Henry Hulme
ISBN: 9781138625402
Format: Hardback
$231.00

First published in 1907, the publication of these Middle-English texts aimed to make the dramatic Harrowing of Hell...  Read More >>

The Laud Troy Book: A Romance of about 1400 A.D.

The Laud Troy Book: A Romance of about 1400 A.D.

Author: J. Ernst Wülfing
ISBN: 9781138310827
Format: Hardback
$326.00

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Three Middle-English Versions of the Rule of St. Benet: Two Contemporary Rituals for the Ordination of Nuns

Three Middle-English Versions of the Rule of St. Benet:...

Author: Ernst A. Kock
ISBN: 9781138310667
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Jacob's Well: An English Treatise on the Cleansing of Man's Conscience

Jacob's Well: An English Treatise on the Cleansing of...

Author: Arthur Brandels
ISBN: 9781138310612
Format: Hardback
$252.00

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English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford: Part I

English Register of Godstow Nunnery, Near Oxford: Part...

Author: Andrew Clark
ISBN: 9781138314221
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 and consist of prefixed...  Read More >>

Southern English Varieties Then and Now

Southern English Varieties Then and Now

Author: Laura Wright
ISBN: 9783110575217
Format: Hardback
$248.73

Most of the world's Extraterritorial Englishes stem historically from southern English dialects - Southern England...  Read More >>

Dangerous Language — Esperanto and the Decline of Stalinism

Dangerous Language — Esperanto and the Decline of Stalinism...

Author: Ulrich Lins ,  Humphrey Tonkin
ISBN: 9781349958016
Format: Paperback
$79.17

This volume is complemented by the sister volume Dangerous Language — Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin which offers...  Read More >>

Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis: Berlin Lives

Language and Migration in a Multilingual Metropolis:...

Author: Patrick Stevenson
ISBN: 9783319821368
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This lively and engaging book, set in the historical context of centuries of migration and multilingualism in Berlin,...  Read More >>

Word-Formation in English

Word-Formation in English

Author: Ingo Plag (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf)
ISBN: 9781316623299
Format: Paperback
$93.12

This textbook is directed towards university students of English and linguistics at all levels. It can also serve...  Read More >>

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