Language: history & general works books

3479 books were found.

Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories

Innamincka Words: Yandruwandha dictionary and stories...

Author: Gavan Breen
ISBN: 9781921934216
Format: Paperback
$43.00

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Study Skills for Linguistics

Study Skills for Linguistics

Author: Jeanette Sakel (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9780415720458
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics. Covering...  Read More >>

Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English

Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English

Author: Philip Durkin (Oxford University Press)
ISBN: 9780198736493
Format: Paperback
$68.95

This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins...  Read More >>

Study Skills for Linguistics

Study Skills for Linguistics

Author: Jeanette Sakel (University of the West of England)
ISBN: 9780415720465
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics. Covering...  Read More >>

Corpus Linguistics for ELT: Research and Practice

Corpus Linguistics for ELT: Research and Practice

Author: Ivor Timmis (Leeds Beckett University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415747127
Format: Paperback
$94.99

Corpus Linguistics for ELT provides a practical guide to undertaking ELT-related corpus research. Aimed at researchers,...  Read More >>

Discourses of Ideology and Identity: Social Media and the Iranian Election Protests

Discourses of Ideology and Identity: Social Media and...

Author: Chris Featherman (Northeastern University, USA) ,  Michelle Lazar
ISBN: 9781138825581
Format: Hardback
$200.00

In this monograph, Chris Featherman adopts a discourse analytical approach to explore the ways in which social movement...  Read More >>

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation...

Author: Irmengard Rauch ,  Solveig Bosse
ISBN: 9781433127267
Format: Hardback
$303.73

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and...  Read More >>

The Languages of Dubbing: Mainstream Audiovisual Translation in Italy

The Languages of Dubbing: Mainstream Audiovisual Translation...

Author: Maria Pavesi ,  Maicol Formentelli
ISBN: 9783034316460
Format: Paperback
$190.70

The volume focuses on the languages of Anglophone films and television series and their dubbing into Italian. The...  Read More >>

The Completely Useless Dictionary of Higher Education

The Completely Useless Dictionary of Higher Education...

Author: Ilana S Lehmann
ISBN: 9780990454052
Format: Paperback
$23.26

"Inspired by ""The Devil's Dictionary,"" ""The Completely Useless Dictionary of Higher Education"" is a satirical...  Read More >>

Words, Words Words!

Words, Words Words!

Author: Eric Partridge
ISBN: 9781138915466
Format: Hardback
$305.00

"First published in 1933 (this edition in 1939), this book sees Partridge introducing the reader to the eccentric...  Read More >>

Linguistica: Selected Papers in English, French and German

Linguistica: Selected Papers in English, French and...

Author: Otto Jespersen
ISBN: 9781138908284
Format: Hardback
$389.00

This volume, first published in 1933, brings together a collection of Otto Jespersen’s papers in English, German,...  Read More >>

Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's Guide to Britain

Wordsmiths and Warriors: The English-Language Tourist's...

Author: David Crystal ,  Hilary Crystal
ISBN: 9780198729136
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Who formed and shaped the English language? David and Hilary Crystal take us on a journey through Britain to discover...  Read More >>

The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing

Author: Ewan Clayton (Author)
ISBN: 9781848873636
Format: Paperback
$34.99

An authoritative and accessible history of the cultural miracle that is the written word.  Read More >>

The Story of Australian English

The Story of Australian English

Author: Kel Richards
ISBN: 9781742232317
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Kel Richards talks about The Story ofAustralian English on the Today Show  Read More >>

Reciprocity in English: Historical Development and Synchronic Structure

Reciprocity in English: Historical Development and Synchronic...

Author: Florian Haas (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138868502
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This book provides the first comprehensive account of how the expression of reciprocity in English has developed...  Read More >>

Markets of English: Linguistic Capital and Language Policy in a Globalizing World

Markets of English: Linguistic Capital and Language...

Author: Joseph Sung-Yul Park ,  Lionel Wee
ISBN: 9781138902510
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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First Language versus Foreign Language: Fluency, Errors and Revision Processes in Foreign Language Academic Writing

First Language versus Foreign Language: Fluency, Errors...

Author: Esther Odilia Breuer
ISBN: 9783631646984
Format: Hardback
$173.75

The book discusses the «battle» taking place in writers’ heads when writing in a foreign language. It looks at written...  Read More >>

A World of Heroes: Selections from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles

A World of Heroes: Selections from Homer, Herodotus...

Author: Joint Association of Classical Teachers' Greek Course
ISBN: 9780521736466
Format: Paperback
$69.84

The second edition of a successful reader (first published in 1979) for intermediate students of ancient Greek which...  Read More >>

Language, Literacy and Diversity: Moving Words

Language, Literacy and Diversity: Moving Words

Author: Christopher Stroud ,  Mastin Prinsloo
ISBN: 9780415819053
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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Discourse and Digital Practices: Doing discourse analysis in the digital age

Discourse and Digital Practices: Doing discourse analysis...

Author: Rodney H Jones ,  Alice Chik
ISBN: 9781138022324
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Discourse and Digital Practices shows how tools from discourse analysis can be used to help us understand new communication...  Read More >>

Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics

Colonialism and Missionary Linguistics

Author: Klaus Zimmermann ,  Birte Kellermeier-Rehbein
ISBN: 9783110360486
Format: Hardback
$231.57

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Die sprachliche Formierung der politischen Moderne: Spätmittelalter und Renaissance in Italien

Die sprachliche Formierung der politischen Moderne:...

Author: Oliver Hidalgo ,  Kai Nonnenmacher
ISBN: 9783658080495
Format: Paperback
$131.97

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