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Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction to the Dialect Mixture in Homer, with Notes on Lyric and Herodotus

Ancient Greek Dialects and Early Authors: Introduction...

Author: D. Gary Miller
ISBN: 9781614514930
Format: Hardback
$231.57

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History of the English Language

History of the English Language

Author: Elly van Gelderen
ISBN: 9780415661294
Format: Undefined
$2415.00

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Case, Word Order and Prominence: Interacting Cues in Language Production and Comprehension

Case, Word Order and Prominence: Interacting Cues in...

Author: Monique Lamers ,  Peter de Swart
ISBN: 9789400737501
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book provides an overview of recent psycholinguistic and theoretical investigations on the interplay between...  Read More >>

Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education

Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education...

Author: O. Garcia ,  L. Wei
ISBN: 9781137385758
Format: Hardback
$155.22

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Thanking and Politeness in Japanese: Balancing Acts in Interaction

Thanking and Politeness in Japanese: Balancing Acts...

Author: J. Ohashi
ISBN: 9781137009869
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book synthesizes previous work on thanking, politeness and Japanese pragmatics and crystallises the theoretical...  Read More >>

Law, Truth, and Reason: A Treatise on Legal Argumentation

Law, Truth, and Reason: A Treatise on Legal Argumentation...

Author: Raimo Siltala
ISBN: 9789400737969
Format: Paperback
$448.77

Grounded in linguistic philosophy and Carnapian semantics, this book's innovative contribution to analytical jurisprudence...  Read More >>

Latin: Story of a World Language

Latin: Story of a World Language

Author: Jürgen Leonhardt ,  Kenneth Kronenberg
ISBN: 9780674058071
Format: Hardback
$95.04

"The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives...  Read More >>

Foundations of Bilingual Memory

Foundations of Bilingual Memory

Author: Roberto R. Heredia ,  Jeanette Altarriba
ISBN: 9781461492177
Format: Hardback
$145.17

Foundations of Bilingual Memory provides a valuable update to the field of bilingual memory and offers a new psychological...  Read More >>

Vom Ausgang der Komödie Exemplarische Lustspielschlüsse in der europäischen Literatur: 220. Sitzung am 16. März 1977 in Düsseldorf

Vom Ausgang der Komödie Exemplarische Lustspielschlüsse...

Author: Walter Hinck ,  Walter Hinck
ISBN: 9783663018230
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Angewandte Literaturwissenschaft

Angewandte Literaturwissenschaft

Author: Kenneth A Loparo ,  Arbeitsgruppe Nikol
ISBN: 9783663019572
Format: Paperback
$158.37

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Varieties of Tone: Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning

Varieties of Tone: Frege, Dummett and the Shades of...

Author: R. Kortum
ISBN: 9781137263537
Format: Hardback
$145.17

In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of...  Read More >>

Inschriften bis 1300. Probleme und Aufgaben ihrer Erforschung: Referate der Fachtagung für mittelalterliche und frühneuzeitliche Epigraphik Bonn 1993

Inschriften bis 1300. Probleme und Aufgaben ihrer Erforschung:...

Author: Helga Giersiepen ,  Helga Giersiepen
ISBN: 9783663018377
Format: Paperback
$158.37

Ais einem der jungsten Glieder des interakademischen Projekts ""Deutsche Inschriften des Mittelalters und der fruhen...  Read More >>

The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase

The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English...

Author: Mark Forsyth
ISBN: 9781848316218
Format: Hardback
$32.99

Characteristically witty, delightfully obscure and annoyingly erudite, Forsyth's new book does for literary and...  Read More >>

Dynamic Linguistics: Labov, Martinet, Jakobson and other Precursors of the Dynamic Approach to Language Description

Dynamic Linguistics: Labov, Martinet, Jakobson and other...

Author: Iwan Wmffre
ISBN: 9783034317054
Format: Paperback
$181.90

The analysis of language as a combination of a structural and a lexical component overlooks a third all-encompassing...  Read More >>

Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach

Photojournalism: A Social Semiotic Approach

Author: H. Caple
ISBN: 9780230301009
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of the Arabic Language

A Cultural History of the Arabic Language

Author: Sharron Gu
ISBN: 9780786470594
Format: Paperback
$60.50

This history of literary Arabic describes the evolution of Arabic poetry and prose in the context of music, ritual...  Read More >>

Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story

Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story

Author: Michael Rosen ,  Michael Rosen
ISBN: 9781444791150
Format: Downloadable audio file
$43.96

From Alphabets to Zipcodes, the surprising story of our 26 letters from million-selling author and Radio 4 language...  Read More >>

Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders: The Politics and Place of English as a World Language

Emergent Lingua Francas and World Orders: The Politics...

Author: Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
ISBN: 9780415847346
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book presents an alternative paradigm in understanding and appreciating World Englishes in the wake of globalization...  Read More >>

Many a True Word

Many a True Word

Author: Richard Anthony Baker
ISBN: 9780755365159
Format: Hardback
$36.99

From the author of the BBC Radio News house style guide comes a fascinating guide to the English language.  Read More >>

I'r Gad - Hanner Canrif o Brotestio dros y Gymraeg: Hanner Canrif o Brotestio dros y Gymraeg

I'r Gad - Hanner Canrif o Brotestio dros y Gymraeg:...

Author: Amrywiol ,  Arwel Vittle
ISBN: 9781847717184
Format: Hardback
$77.50

Llyfr lluniau a geiriau sy'n olrhain hanes protest yng Nghymru hyd heddiw. Am y tro cyntaf, mae Arwel Vittle wedi...  Read More >>

Die Großstadt im Roman: Berliner Großstadtdarstellungen zwischen Naturalismus und Moderne

Die Großstadt im Roman: Berliner Großstadtdarstellungen...

Author: Christof Forderer
ISBN: 9783663016403
Format: Paperback
$158.37

Berlins Aufstieg zur Weltstadt, der sich nach der Reichsgriindung 1871 in explosions artigem Tempo binnen weniger...  Read More >>

Dionysius Scytobrachion

Dionysius Scytobrachion

Author: Jeffrey S. Rusten
ISBN: 9783663053743
Format: Paperback
$158.37

The author known (if he is known at all) as Dionysius Scytobrachion is hardly a topic of general interest, and since...  Read More >>

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