Language: history & general works books

In this book, the author argues that whitecentricism and linguoracism are two dominant ideologies that structurally...  Read More >>

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Provides a step-by-step approach to the most useful statistical analyses for language test developers and researchers...  Read More >>

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Viele Begriffe wie Obsentropf , Birngericht oder Mundraub bekamen im Gebrauch der Rechtssprache ihre besondere Bedeutung....  Read More >>

Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday...  Read More >>

How on earth did 'with bells on' come to express enthusiasm? And what do chips on shoulders have to do with inferiority...  Read More >>

By exploring the context of psychiatry's unofficial voices: its terminology, jokes, parodies, and everyday narratives,...  Read More >>

Now in its third edition, Communication: Motivation, Knowledge, Skills is a textbook for the basic college communication...  Read More >>

Shakespeare's English: A Practical Linguistic Guide provides students with a solid grounding for understanding the...  Read More >>

The human language, as perceived by an ecologically-minded linguist today, is a life process, operating within the...  Read More >>

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French missionary Émile Petitot (1838–1916) spent twelve years in Canada's Northwest Territories. His boundless...  Read More >>

Is construction grammar a useful framework for the study of language change? Hilpert combines the current linguistic...  Read More >>

The second volume of E. S. Robert's work, written with E. A. Gardner and published in 1905, focuses on the inscriptions...  Read More >>

In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the...  Read More >>

In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the...  Read More >>

Although academic discussions of translation have been radically reshaped by recent theoretical developments, questions...  Read More >>

Offers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the language in all its historical, geographic, and social...  Read More >>

This book - written by his long-standing colleague and published in Russian by Moscow University Press in 1992,...  Read More >>

This story of the life of Jesus is told in Gaelic by an author whose love of God and of the Gaelic language shine...  Read More >>

An accessible introduction to the analysis of English, helping you to understand the structure, meaning and use...  Read More >>

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This volume analyzes morphological and morphonological phenomena from a number of distinct Slavic languages. The...  Read More >>

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