Language: history & general works books

3371 books were found.

The Origin of Language and Consciousness: How Social Orders and Communicative Concerns Gave Rise to Speech and Cognitive Abilities

The Origin of Language and Consciousness: How Social...

Author: Nikolai S. Rozov
ISBN: 9783031306297
Format: Hardback
$369.57

"This book presents an evolutionary theory of the origin and step-by-step development of linguistic structures and...  Read More >>

Popularizing Science in the Digital Era: A Multimodal Genre Perspective on TED Talk Videos

Popularizing Science in the Digital Era: A Multimodal...

Author: Sichen Xia
ISBN: 9781032263625
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers a comprehensive overview of TED talks as a digital-multimodal video genre, exploring the ways in...  Read More >>

Sbisà on Speech as Action

Sbisà on Speech as Action

Author: Laura Caponetto ,  Paolo Labinaz
ISBN: 9783031225277
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The volume provides a thorough look into Marina Sbisà’s distinctive, Austinian-inspired approach to speech acts....  Read More >>

A Deep Well of Want: Visualising the World of John McGahern

A Deep Well of Want: Visualising the World of John McGahern...

Author: Eamon Maher ,  Paul Butler
ISBN: 9781800798106
Format: Paperback
$77.63

This book represents a unique visualisation of the world of Irish writer John McGahern through his words and the...  Read More >>

Puns on the Menu!: (Having Fun with Food)

Puns on the Menu!: (Having Fun with Food)

Author: El McMeen
ISBN: 9781958890202
Format: Hardback
$74.91

"We can have fun with food! Let's make up some words! Tasteless Gazpacho is ""Gazbotcho!"" Shrimp Scampi chintzy...  Read More >>

Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman...

Author: Nicholas Zair (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009327671
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. Focusses...  Read More >>

The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language

The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History...

Author: Peter Trudgill (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781108949576
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Written by one of the foremost authorities on the English language, this book offers a fascinating look at the history...  Read More >>

Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social Media: The Politics of Mediatisation

Exploring Education Policy Through Newspapers and Social...

Author: Aspa Baroutsis (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) ,  Bob Lingard (Univerisity of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032215297
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Exploring education policy through newspapers and social media offers an original, theorised, and empirically-based...  Read More >>

The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History of the Language

The Long Journey of English: A Geographical History...

Author: Peter Trudgill (Université de Fribourg, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781108845120
Format: Hardback
$155.25

Written by one of the foremost authorities on the English language, this book offers a fascinating look at the history...  Read More >>

Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire

Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman...

Author: Nicholas Zair (University of Cambridge)
ISBN: 9781009327664
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Makes use of digital corpora to give in-depth details of the history and development of the spelling of Latin. Focusses...  Read More >>

The Language of Living Matter: How Molecules Acquire Meaning

The Language of Living Matter: How Molecules Acquire...

Author: Bernd-Olaf Küppers
ISBN: 9783030803216
Format: Paperback
$103.47

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Puns on the Menu!: (Having Fun with Food)

Puns on the Menu!: (Having Fun with Food)

Author: El McMeen
ISBN: 9781958889589
Format: Paperback
$49.03

"We can have fun with food! Let's make up some words! Tasteless Gazpacho is ""Gazbotcho!"" Shrimp Scampi chintzy...  Read More >>

Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture

Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture

Author: Elizabeth R. Williamson
ISBN: 9780367763688
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities

The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital...

Author: Svenja Adolphs (University of Nottingham, UK) ,  Dawn Knight (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781032569734
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities provides a comprehensive survey of how the digital...  Read More >>

Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization of Equality

Discourses of Global Queer Mobility and the Mediatization...

Author: Joseph Comer
ISBN: 9781032072838
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book critically unpacks the why and how around everyday rhetorics and slogans promoting global LGBTQ equality....  Read More >>

Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties of English

Nominal Pluralization and Countability in African Varieties...

Author: Susanne Mohr (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
ISBN: 9780367654047
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of plural marking, its morphosyntax and semantics, in African varieties...  Read More >>

Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research: Papers in Honour of Dr Jeffrey L. Kallen

Expanding the Landscapes of Irish English Research:...

Author: Stephen Lucek ,  Carolina P. Amador-Moreno
ISBN: 9781032109671
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This collection brings together work from scholars across sociolinguistics, World Englishes, and linguistic landscapes...  Read More >>

Globalization and English Education in Taiwan: Curriculum, Perceptions, and Pedagogies

Globalization and English Education in Taiwan: Curriculum,...

Author: I-Chung Ke
ISBN: 9781032059457
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In the last three decades, the global spread of English has continued despite constant political and cultural conflicts....  Read More >>

A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography

A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography...

Author: Heming Yong ,  Jing Peng
ISBN: 9781032024684
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book traces the evolution of British English dictionaries from their roots to the end of the 20th century by...  Read More >>

Sustainability of Blended Language Learning Programs: Technology Integration in English for Academic Purposes

Sustainability of Blended Language Learning Programs:...

Author: Cynthia Nicholas Palikat ,  Paul Gruba
ISBN: 9781032115849
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book focuses on the investigation of the sustainability of technology integration in the context of language...  Read More >>

English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and Language in Use

English in East and South Asia: Policy, Features and...

Author: Ee Ling Low ,  Anne Pakir (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
ISBN: 9781032068244
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book provides the first systematic, comprehensive account of English in East and South Asia. It provides a...  Read More >>

Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing Political and Cultural Discourse

Multimodal Legitimation: Understanding and Analysing...

Author: Rowan R. Mackay
ISBN: 9780367762292
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This volume meditates on the meanings of legitimation and expands on the notion that language can be used to gain...  Read More >>

Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language Normativity: Theoretical, Epistemological, and Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Feeling

Emotions, Metacognition, and the Intuition of Language...

Author: David Romand ,  Michel Le Du
ISBN: 9783031179129
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book proposes a comprehensive discussion of the issue of linguistic feeling, the subject’s metalinguistic capacity...  Read More >>

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