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By: N/A
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Modern Books:
Seller ID: 444258
ISBN: 1906761884
Binding: Hardcover
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Price: $6.50
Seller ID: 414070
ISBN: 1616200200
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"A delightful and courageous tale and a romping good read. Voila " --Mark Greenside, author of I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do)
William Alexander is more than a Francophile. He wants to be French. There's one small obstacle though: he doesn't speak la langue fran aise. In Flirting with French, Alexander sets out to conquer the language he loves. But will it love him back?
Alexander eats, breathes, and sleeps French (even conjugating in his dreams). He travels to France, where mistranslations send him bicycling off i...
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By: Ayer, Alfred J.,Ayer, Sir Alfred Jules
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Publisher: Dover Publications: June 1952
Seller ID: 449336
ISBN: 0486200108
Binding: Trade Paperback
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"A delightful book ... I should like to have written it myself." -- Bertrand Russell
First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teacher...
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By: Barlow, Julie
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Seller ID: 434348
ISBN: 1250130271
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By: Bellos, David
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Publisher: March 2013
Seller ID: 435940
ISBN: 0865478570
Binding: Hardcover
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A New York Times Notable Book for 2011
One of The Economist's 2011 Books of the Year
People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages--as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the diversity of languages. Without translation there would be no w...
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Price: $5.50
Seller ID: 372852
ISBN: 0521297516
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By: Bickerton, Derek
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Publisher: November 2013
Seller ID: 256842
ISBN: 0809028166
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Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human--what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible. The story focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all--Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world.
The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has s...
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By: Borror
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Publisher: November 2009
Seller ID: 462291
ISBN: 0874840538
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By: Bovier de Fontenelle, BErnard
Price: $5.00
Seller ID: 369445
ISBN: 0520071719
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By: Bryson, Bill
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Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: January 1990
Seller ID: 92973
ISBN: 0380715430
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With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson--the acclaimed author of The Lost Continent--brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries.
By: Bryson, Bill
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Seller ID: 403410
ISBN: 014014305X
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By: Bryson, Bill
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Publisher: TW Adult: September 2016
Seller ID: 413952
ISBN: 1784161861
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By: Burgess, Anthony
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Seller ID: 397324
ISBN: 068813789X
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By: Burnley, David
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Publisher: Routledge: May 2000
Seller ID: 482616
ISBN: 0582312639
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This second edition of The History of the English Language- A Sourcebook provides a comprehensive and accessible guide to the origins and development of the English language. First published in 1992, the book contains over fifty illustrative passages, drawn from the oldest English to the twentieth century. The passages are contextualised by individual introductions and grouped into the traditional periods of Old English, Early Middle English, Later Middle English, Early Modern English and Modern English. These periods are connected by brief essays explaining the major linguistic development...
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By: Burridge, Kate
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press: June 2005
Seller ID: 480494
ISBN: 0521618231
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By: Campbell, Jeremy
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster: September 1973
Seller ID: 446856
ISBN: 0671440624
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By: Chomsky, Noam
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Publisher: University Press Of America: March 1983
Seller ID: 430229
ISBN: 0819130923
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By: Church, Joseph
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Publisher: September 2014
Seller ID: 282611
ISBN: V338
Binding: Unknown
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By: Costa, Albert
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Publisher: Allen Lane: May 2020
Seller ID: 475578
ISBN: 0241391512
Binding: Hardcover
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How do two languages exist in the same brain? Why is it possible for the brain to forget a language? How does bilingualism sculpt the brain?
Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet this fascinating, complex ability of the human brain is understood by few. In The Bilingual Brain, leading expert Albert Costa explores the science of language through a wide range of cutting-edge studies and examples from South Korea to Spain to Canada.
Looking at the developmen...
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By: Coward, Rosalind
Price: $3.00
Seller ID: 393867
ISBN: 071008627X
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