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In Other Words

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Publisher: Modern Books:

Seller ID: 444258

ISBN: 1906761884

Binding: Hardcover

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Flirting with French: How a Language Charmed Me, Seduced Me, and Nearly Broke My Heart

By: Alexander, WIlliam

Price: $6.50

Seller ID: 414070

ISBN: 1616200200

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"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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Language, Truth and Logic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)

By: Alfred J. Ayer,Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dover Publications: Jun-52

Seller ID: 449336

ISBN: 486200108

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

By: Barlow, Julie

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 434348

ISBN: 1250130271

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jean-Beno t Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as living there. Yet one important lesson never seemed to sink in: how to communicate comfortably with the French, even when you speak their language. In The Bonjour Effect Jean-Beno t and Julie chronicle the lessons they learned after they returned to France to live, for a year, with their twin daughters. They offer up all the lessons they learned and explain, in a book as fizzy as a bottle of the finest French champagne, the most important aspect of all: the French don't communicate, they c...
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Is That a Fish In Your Ear

By: Bellos, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Mar-13

Seller ID: 435940

ISBN: 865478570

Binding: Hardcover

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Linguistic Behaviour

By: Bennett, Jonathan

Price: $5.50

Seller ID: 372852

ISBN: 521297516

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Bastard Tongues

By: Bickerton, Derek

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Nov-13

Seller ID: 256842

ISBN: 809028166

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way

By: Bill Bryson

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks: Jan-90

Seller ID: 92973

ISBN: 380715430

Binding: Trade Paperback

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MADE IN AMERICA (REI. NEW COVER)

By: Bill Bryson

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Publisher: TW Adult: Sep-16

Seller ID: 413952

ISBN: 1784161861

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Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

By: Bovier de Fontenelle, BErnard

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Seller ID: 369445

ISBN: 520071719

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Mother Tongue

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 403410

ISBN: 014014305X

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Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 397324

ISBN: 068813789X

Binding: Hardcover

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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax

By: Chomsky, Noam

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Publisher: Mar-11

Seller ID: 133968

ISBN: MIT119

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Language and the Discovery of Reality

By: Church, Joseph

Price: $2.50

Publisher: Sep-14

Seller ID: 282611

ISBN: V338

Binding: Unknown

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Language and Materialism

By: Coward, Rosalind

Price: $3.00

Seller ID: 393867

ISBN: 071008627X

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Encyclopedia of the English Language

By: Crystal, David

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Nov-09

Seller ID: 58544

ISBN: 521401798

Binding: Hardcover

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The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World

By: Ella Frances Sanders

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Ten Speed Press: Sep-16

Seller ID: 414102

ISBN: 1607749335

Binding: Hardcover

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Translation and Eating the Sun, a charming illustrated collection of more than fifty expressions from around the globe that explores the nuances of language
From the hilarious and romantic to the philosophical and literal, the idioms, proverbs, and adages in this illustrated collection address the nuances of language in the form of sayings from around the world. From the French idiom "to pedal in the sauerkraut" (meaning, "to spin your wheels"), to the Japanese idiom "even monkeys fall from trees" (meaning, "...
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Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons In Life, Love, And Language

By: Fallows, Deborah

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 406846

ISBN: 080277914X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Deborah Fallows has spent a lot of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying learning the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering behavior and habits of its people, and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of the language - a word, a phrase, an oddity of grammar - became windows into understanding romance,...
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Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths, and Profanity in English

By: Geoffrey Hughes

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Publisher: Penguin Books: Sep-98

Seller ID: 396894

ISBN: 140267077

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Talk on the Wild Side: Why Language Can't Be Tamed

By: Greene, Lane

Price: $15.00

Seller ID: 383498

ISBN: 1610398335

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Language is the most human invention. Spontaneous, unruly, passionate, and erratic it resists every attempt to discipline or regularize it--a history celebrated here in all its irreverent glory.
Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on the move. Throughout history, for every mutation, idiosyncrasy, and ubiquitous mistake, there have been countervailing rules, pronouncements and systems making some attempt to bring language to heel.
From the utopian language-builder to the stereotypical grammatical stickler to the programme...
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