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Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Langua 2ND Edition
by David Crystal
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 472-479) and indexes.... ( read more)
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature
by Steven Pinker
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With The Stuff of Thought, linguist Steven Pinker returns to the themes of language and human nature to examine how words express the workings of our minds. Dealing with many aspects of human cognitive and social evolution, Pinker demonstrates his... ( read more)
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Language and Ethnicity (Key Topics in Sociolinguistics)
by Carmen Fought
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Explores the crucial role of language in constructing and revealing a speaker??'s ethnic identity.... ( read more)
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Language Myths
by Laurie Bauer
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"The media are ruining English"; "Some languages are harder than others"; "Children can't speak or write properly anymore. Such pieces of "cultural wisdom" are often expressed in newspapers and on radio and television. Rarely is there a response from... ( read more)
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Phonology and Language Use
by Joan Bybee
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Reinvestigates how a speaker/hearer's experience with language affects the representation of phonology.... ( read more)
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Culture, Language and Personality: Selected Essays
by Edward Sapir
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Edward Sapir was one of those men, rare among scientists and scholars, who are spoken of by their colleagues in terms of genius. His writings on frontier problems in cultural anthropology, psychology, and linguistics are outstanding for their provocative... ( read more)
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Current Studies in Linguistics #16: Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures
by Noam Chomsky
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Language and Problems of Knowledge is Noam Chomsky's most accessible statement on the nature, origins, and current concerns of the field of linguistics. He frames the lectures with four fundamental questions: What do we know when we are able to speak and... ( read more)
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An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
by Ralph W Fasold
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This accessible new textbook offers balanced and uniformly excellent coverage of modern linguistics.... ( read more)
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Linguistics: An Introduction
by Andrew Radford
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Self-contained introduction to linguistics, offering a unique approach to language from a variety of perspectives.... ( read more)
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Language Death
by David Crystal
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A thorough review of the worldwide problem of language endangerment and death.... ( read more)
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Words Words Words
by David Crystal
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"Words, Words, Words" is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life f its own: it only... ( read more)
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Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology
by Keith H Basso
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In these seven essays, Keith Basso defines some of the central concerns of linguistic anthropology through the close study of Western Apache, showing how intricacies of language-place names, metaphor, uses of silence-help a people define their very... ( read more)
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Saving Languages: An Introduction to Language Revitalization
by Lenore A Grenoble
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Written not only for linguists and anthropologists, this book serves as a general reference guide to language revitalization for language activists and community members who believe they should ensure the future use of their languages, despite their... ( read more)
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Language Shock: Understanding the Culture of Conversation
by Michael Agar
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The key to communication, says linguistic anthropologist Michael Agar, is understandingthe context and culture of conversation. In Language Shock, Agar reveals how deeply our language and cultural values intertwine to define who we are and how we relate... ( read more)
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Language and the Internet
by David Crystal
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According to popular mythology, the Internet will be bad for the future of language--technospeak will rule, standards will be lost, and creativity diminished as globalization imposes sameness. David Crystal, one of the foremost authorities on language... ( read more)
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The Loom of Language
by Frederick Bodmer
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Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for... ( read more)
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English Syntax: An Introduction
by Andrew Radford
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This textbook provides a concise, clear, and accessible introduction to current syntactic theory.... ( read more)
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North American Icelandic: The Life of a Language
by Bir Arnbjornsdottir
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North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba and North Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. But North American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it. North American... ( read more)
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The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World (Facts on File Library of Language and Literature)
by Bernard Comrie
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The origins of language have long been the subject of myth and conjecture... ( read more)
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Genes, Peoples, and Languages
by L Cavalli Sforza
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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species. Cavalli-Sforza and others have answered this question--anticipated by Darwin--with a decisive yes. Genes... ( read more)
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