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Accents of English: An Introductionby John WellsISBN 0521297192 (0-521-29719-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introductionby Antonio LoprienoISBN 0521448492 (0-521-44849-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction'Book summary:The language of Ancient Egypt has been the object of careful investigation since its decipherment in the nineteenth century, but this is the first accessible account that uses the insight of modern linguistics. Antonio Loprieno discusses the hieroglyphic system and its cursive varieties, and the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ancient Egyptian, as well as looking at its genetic ties with other languages of the Near East. This book will be indispensable for both linguists and Egyptologists. [via]
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Babel-17by Samuel R. DelanyISBN 0441045952 (0-441-04595-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babel-17'Book summary:Author of the bestselling Dhalgren and winner of four Nebulas and one Hugo, Samuel R. Delany is one of the most acclaimed writers of speculative fiction.
Babel-17, winner of the Nebula Award for best novel of the year, is a fascinating tale of a famous poet bent on deciphering a secret language that is the key to the enemys deadly force, a task that requires she travel with a splendidly improbable crew to the site of the next attack. For the first time, Babel-17 is published as the author intended with the short novel Empire Star, the tale of Comet Jo, a simple-minded teen thrust into a complex galaxy when hes entrusted to carry a vital message to a distant world. Spellbinding and smart, both novels are testimony to Delanys vast and singular talent. [via]More editions of Babel-17:
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Blooming English : Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Languageby Kate BurridgeISBN 0521548322 (0-521-54832-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge Latin Course: Unit 2by Patricia E. Bell, Stephanie Pope, Stan Farrow, Richard Popeck, Anne ShawISBN 0521004306 (0-521-00430-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cambridge Latin Course: Unit 2'Book summary:The Fourth Edition Cambridge Latin Course is an introductory program organized into four well-integrated units. Cambridge's proven approach includes a stimulating continuous story line, interwoven grammatical development and cultural information, supportive illustrations and photographs, and a complete Language Information section. Reading is the heart of the Cambridge Latin Course, and all the elements of the program - illustrations, vocabulary, grammar and syntax, cultural contexts and references, activities - are carefully introduced and arranged to provide students with the skills they need to read with comprehension and enjoyment from the very first page. Student Book The most effective tool for students and teachers of Latin! A continuous and motivating story line captures and holds students' imagination. . . The logical pattern of each Stage and careful integration among Stages and Units train students to read Latin with ease and to understand the culture of the Romans. . . Clear language explanations and examples and ample practice insure student mastery of Latin. . . And rich illustrations bring the works and experiences of the Romans to life. [via]
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Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 1/the North American Third Editionby Ed Phinney, Patricia E. Bell, Barbara RomaineISBN 0521343798 (0-521-34379-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Cambridge Latin Course, Unit Iby University of Cambridge EditorsISBN 0521389453 (0-521-38945-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Chomsky: Ideas and Idealsby N. V. SmithISBN 0521546885 (0-521-54688-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals'Book summary:Chomsky has had a major influence on modern linguistics, psychology, and philosophy. In this rigorous yet accessible account of Chomsky's work, Neil Smith analyzes Chomsky's key contributions to the study of both language and the mind. He gives a detailed exposition of Chomsky's linguistic theorizing, and examines the ideas for which he is best known. Finally, Smith examines Chomsky's political ideas and how these fit intellectually with his scholarly work. Throughout, Smith explores the controversy surrounding Chomsky's work, and explains why he has been both adulated and vilified. [via]
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A Civil Tongueby Edwin NewmanISBN 0446307580 (0-446-30758-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony BurgessISBN 0393312836 (0-393-31283-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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A Clockwork Orange: Play with Musicby Anthony BurgessISBN 0345354435 (0-345-35443-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Clockwork Orange: Play with Music'Book summary:"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Anthony Burgess' "A Clockwork Orange" was published in 1962 and has been controversial ever since. It tells the story of fifteen-year-old Alex - whose chief preoccupations are Beethoven's Ninth and ultra-violence - as he and his droogs rampage though a dystopian future seeking thrills, until they come under the control of the state's sinister apparatus. [via]
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Coming to Termsby William SafireISBN 0385413009 (0-385-41300-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Computational Linguistics: An Introductionby Ralph GrishmanISBN 0521310385 (0-521-31038-5)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Computational Linguistics: An Introduction'Book summary:In spite of the rapid growth of interest in the computer analysis of language, this book provides an integrated introduction to the field. Inevitably, when many different approaches are still being considered, a straightforward work of synthesis would be neither possible nor practicable. Nevertheless, Ralph Grishman provides a valuable survey of various approaches to the problems of syntax analysis, semantic analysis, text analysis and natural language generation, while considering in greater detail those that seem to him most productive. The book is written for readers with some background in computer science and finite mathematics, but advanced knowledge of programming languages or compilers is not necessary and nor is a background in linguistics. The exposition is always clear and students will find the exercises and extensive bibliography supporting the text particularly helpful. [via]
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A Course in Language Teaching: Practice and Theoryby Penny UrISBN 0521449944 (0-521-44994-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose BierceISBN 0486275426 (0-486-27542-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Dogs of Babelby Carolyn ParkhurstISBN 0316778508 (0-316-77850-8)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dogs of Babel'Book summary:The quirky premise of Carolyn Parkhurst's debut novel, The Dogs of Babel, is original enough: after his wife Lexy dies after falling from a tree, linguistics professor Paul Iverson becomes obsessed with teaching their dog, a Rhodesian Ridgeback named Lorelei (the sole witness to the tragedy), to speak so he can find out the truth about Lexy's death--was it accidental or did Lexy commit suicide?
In short, accelerating chapters Parkhurst alternates between Paul's strange and passionate efforts to get Lorelei to communicate and his heartfelt memories of his whirlwind relationship with Lexy. The first 100 pages or so bring to mind another noteworthy debut, Alice Sebold's brilliant exploration of grief, The Lovely Bones. Unfortunately, the second half of The Dogs of Babel takes too many odd twists and turns--everything from a Ms. Cleo-like TV psychic to an underground sect of abusive canine linguists--to ever allow the reader to feel any real sympathy for the main characters. Parkhurst's Paul Iverson can certainly be appealing at times, and his heartbreak is often quite palpable ("...for every dark moment we shared between us, there was a moment of such brightness I almost could not bear to look at it head-on."). But his mask-maker wife Lexy--Paul's driving inspiration--is a character whose spur-of-the-moment outbursts, spontaneous fits of anger, and supposedly charming sense of whimsy (on their first date, they drive from Virginia to Disney World, eating only appetizers and side dishes along the way), become so annoying and grating that it's hard to believe anyone could ever put up with her, let alone teach their dog to speak for her.
Despite its cloying tone, The Dogs of Babel marks a notable debut. Parkhurst possesses a wealth of inspired ideas, and no doubt many readers will respond to the book, but one hopes that the author's future efforts will be packed with richer character development and less schmaltz. --Gisele Toueg [via]
The Dyirbal Language of North Queenslandby Robert M. W. DixonISBN 0521085101 (0-521-08510-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: Studies in Linguisticsby R.M. DixonISBN 0521097487 (0-521-09748-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dyirbal Language of North Queensland: Studies in Linguistics'Book summary:Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects. For more than ten thousand years they lived in harmony with each other and with their environment. Over one hundred years ago many of them were shot and poisoned by European invaders. Those allowed to survive have been barely tolerated tenants on their own lands, and have had their beliefs, habits and language help up to ridicule and scorn. In the last decade they have seen their remaining forests taken and cleared by an American company, with the destruction of sites whose remembered antiquity is many thousands of years older than the furthest event in the shallow history of their desecrators. The survivors of the three tribes have stood up to these diversities with dignity and humour. They continue to look forward to the day when they may again be allowed to live in peaceful possession of some of their own lands, and may be accorded a respect that they have been denied, but which they have been forcibly made to accord to others. [via]
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Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolutionby Philip LiebermanISBN 0393040895 (0-393-04089-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eve Spoke: Human Language and Human Evolution'Book summary:Speaking, like breathing, is something we do every day without thinking. And just like breathing, speech is the result of a complicated dance between neural mechanisms and muscle responses. Although everybody makes use of language--in some form or another--little is actually understood about what it is or how it began. In Eve Spoke, Philip Lieberman, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics, outlines his own theories about this mysterious subject. From development of the human vocal tract to the latest models of where language skills occur in the brain, Lieberman covers the physical aspects of producing speech. He then tries to explain just how the brain puts it all together to create meaning from sound. [via]
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Exploring the French Languageby R. Anthony Lodge, Nigel Armstrong, Jane F. Shelton, Yvette M.L. EllisISBN 0340676620 (0-340-67662-0)
Softcover, Hodder Arnold
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Feminism and Linguistic Theoryby Deborah CameronISBN 0312083769 (0-312-08376-9)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Feminist Critique of Language: A Readerby Deborah CameronISBN 0415164001 (0-415-16400-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Feminist Critique of Language: A Reader'Book summary:Feminism has placed language firmlu on the political agenda. A 'feminist critiqwue of language' now undeniably exists: its influence on public, and especially academinc discourse has grown to the point where those with an interest in literary of social theory can no longer dismiss it. Feminist views on language are varied and complex, with contributions from a broad spectrum of disciplines and theoretical perspectives, some of them notoriously 'difficult' for the student. This selection of new and wide-ranging writings on language, gender, and feminist thought brings together important articles from linguistics and literary crticism. Broader in scope than existing texts, the volume makes availlavle material which is hard to find and collects in a single volume material which is widely scattered. Itt docuaments the diversity of the field and makdes the devate accessible by porviding helpful introcustions and annotations. Giving a clear overview, it makes sense of the way the field has developed chromologically and clarifies similarities and differednes of approach within it. [via]
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From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Languageby Jerome A. FeldmanISBN 0262062534 (0-262-06253-4)
Hardcover, Mit Pr
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]
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Historical Syntax in Cross-Linguistic Perspectiveby Alice C. Harris, Lyle CampbellISBN 0521478812 (0-521-47881-2)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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History of the French Languageby Peter RickardISBN 041510887X (0-415-10887-X)
Softcover, Unwin Hyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'History of the French Language'Book summary:This well-established and popular book provides students with all the linguistic background they need for studying any period of French literature. For the second edition the text has been revised and updated throughout, and the two final chapters on contemporary French, and its position as a world language, have been completely rewritten. Starting with a brief description of the Vulgar Latin spoken in Gaul, and the earliest recorded forms of French, Peter Rickard traces the development of the language through the later Middle Ages and Renaissance to show how it became standardized in a near modern form in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. [via]
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A History of the Hebrew Languageby Angel Saenz-BadillosISBN 0521556341 (0-521-55634-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of the Hebrew Language'Book summary:A History of the Hebrew Language is a comprehensive description of Hebrew from its Semitic origins and the earliest settlement of the Israelite tribes in Canaan to the present day. Professor Sáenz-Badillos sets Hebrew in the context of the Northwest Semitic languages and examines the origins of Hebrew and its earliest manifestations in ancient Biblical poetry, inscriptions, and prose written before the Babylonian exile. He looks at the different medieval traditions of pointing classical Biblical Hebrew texts and the characteristic features of the post-exilic language, including the Hebrew of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He gives particular attention to Rabbinic and medieval Hebrew, especially as evidenced in writings from Spain. His survey concludes with the revival of the language in this century in the form of Israeli Hebrew. [via]
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How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Lifeby Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick GolinkoffISBN 0452281733 (0-452-28173-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Ideology and Linguistic Theory: Noam Chomsky and the Deep Structure Debatesby Geoffrey J. Huck, John A. GoldsmithISBN 0415153131 (0-415-15313-1)
Softcover, Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
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Image, Music, Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521360 (0-374-52136-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Image, Music, Text'Book summary:Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought. [via]
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Intonationby Alan CruttendenISBN 0521591821 (0-521-59182-1)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press
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Introducing Phonetics & Phonologyby S. J. Hannahs, Mike DavenportISBN 0340810459 (0-340-81045-9)
Softcover, Hodder Arnold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Phonetics & Phonology'Book summary:This text examines some of the ways linguists can express what native speakers know about the sound system of their language. Intended for the absolute beginner, it requires no previous background in linguistics, phonetics or phonology.
Starting with a grounding in phonetics and phonological theory, this book provides a base from which more advanced treatments may be approached. It begins with an examination of the foundations of articulatory and acoustic phonetics, moves on to the basic principles of phonology, and ends with an outline of some further issues within contemporary phonology. Varieties of English, particularly Received Pronuciation and General American, form the focus of consideration, but aspects of the phonetics and phonology of other languages are discussed as well. [via]More editions of Introducing Phonetics & Phonology:
Introducing Phonetics and Phonologyby Mike Davenport, S. J. HannahsISBN 0340662182 (0-340-66218-2)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Introducing Phonologyby David OddenISBN 0521534046 (0-521-53404-6)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Introducing Transformational Grammar: From Rules to Principles and Parametersby Jamal OuhallaISBN 0340556307 (0-340-55630-7)
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Introducing Transformational Grammer: From Principles and Parameters to Minimalismby Jamal OuhallaISBN 0340740361 (0-340-74036-1)
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Introduction to Historical Linguisticsby Anthony ArlottoISBN 0395126150 (0-395-12615-0)
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Kontakte: A Communicative Approachby Tracy D. TerrellISBN 0394375548 (0-394-37554-8)
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Landmarks in Linguistic Thought 2: The Western Tradition in the Twentieth Centuryby Talbot J. Taylor, Nigel Love, John Earl JosephISBN 0415063973 (0-415-06397-3)
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Language Acquistion: The Growth of Grammarby Maria Teresa GuastiISBN 0262572206 (0-262-57220-6)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Language Acquistion: The Growth of Grammar'Book summary:This text provides a comprehensive introduction to current thinking on language acquisition. Following an introductory chapter that discusses the foundations of linguistic inquiry, the book covers the acquisition of specific aspects of language from birth to about age 6. Topics include the language abilities of newborns, the acquisition of phonological properties of language, the lexicon, syntax, pronoun and sentence interpretation, control structures, specific language impairments, and the relationship between language and other cognitive functions.At the conclusion of each chapter are a summary of the material covered, a list of keywords, study questions, and exercises. The book, which adopts the perspective of Chomskyan Universal Generative Grammar throughout, assumes a familiarity with basic concepts of linguistic theory.
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Language Diversity and Thought: A Reformulation of the Linguistic Relativity Hypothesisby John A. LucyISBN 0521387973 (0-521-38797-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Linguistics and the Novelby Roger FowlerISBN 0416838308 (0-416-83830-8)
Softcover, Methuen
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Logical Formby Robert MayISBN 0262631024 (0-262-63102-4)
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The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventrisby Andrew RobinsonISBN 0500510776 (0-500-51077-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris'Book summary:Linear B is Europe's oldest readable writing, dating from the middle of the second millennium BC. First discovered in 1900, on clay tablets among the ruins of the Palace of Minos at Knossos, Crete, it remained a mystery for over fifty years until 1952, when Michael Ventris discovered that its signs did not represent an unknown language as previously believed, but an archaic dialect of Greek, more than 500 years older than the Greek of Homer. Dubbled 'the Everest of archaeology', the decipherment was all the more remarkable because Ventris was not a trained classical scholar but an architect by profession, who had first heard of linear B as a schoolboy. An initial fascination became a lifelong obsession for this intriguing and contradictory man, a gifted linguist but a divided soul. This is the first book to tell not just the story of Linear B but that of the 'modest genius' who broke the code. [via]
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The Meaning of Languageby Robert MartinISBN 0262631083 (0-262-63108-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meaning of Language'Book summary:Philosophy of language is one of the hardest areas for the beginning student; it is full of difficult questions technical arguments, and jargon. Written in a straightforward and explanatory way and filled with examples, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to the field, suitable for students with no background in the philosophy of language or formal logic.The eleven chapters in the book's first part take up a variety of matters connected to questions about what language is for - what meaning has to do with people's ideas and intentions, and with social communication. Included are chapters on the innateness controversy, the private language argument, the possibility of animal and machine language, language as rule-governed or conventional behavior, and the speech act theory.In the second part, thirteen chapters concentrate on what language is about; treating sense and reference, extensionality, truth conditions, and the theories of proper names, definite descriptions, indexicals, general terms, and psychological attributions.Many recent books and courses in the philosophy of language treat the issues and approaches covered in the first or second part of this book; however, this is the first time they are presented together (although either part may be read and/or taught independently). The book's style is pedagogic, not polemical. It shows students how much has been accomplished by philosophers of language in this century while making them keenly aware of the fundamental controversies that remain.Robert Martin is an associate professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A Bradford Book.
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Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the Structure of Englishby Andrew RadfordISBN 052154274X (0-521-54274-X)
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Modern Turkeyby Geoffrey L. LewisISBN 0510392105 (0-510-39210-5)
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New Cambridge English Course 1by Michael SwanISBN 0521376378 (0-521-37637-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Cambridge English Course 1'Book summary:The New Cambridge English Course, complete in four levels, provides teachers of adult and young adult learners with the most thorough and comprehensive modern course available, for beginner through to upper-intermediate level.Levels 1 and 2 have firmly established The New Cambridge English Course as the one course which provides the wide range of features needed for successful achievement and steady progress at the beginner and low-intermediate stages: - a multi-syllabus approach, systematically covering all aspects of language from grammar, notions and functions through to pronunciation, skills and vocabulary - effective development of fluency through controlled and freer activities, as well as thorough grounding in accuracy - wide range of topics, exercises and tasks, providing stimulus and variety for both teachers and learners - very clear organisation of teaching material, explicit aims for each lesson, high quality of page design, and detailed notes for teachers in the Teacher's Book (interleaved with the student's pages) - carefully-paced lessons, providing a minimum of 72 hours class work at each level - opportunities for self-study and learner choice in the Practice Books; frequent revision, informal testing in the Student's Books, with more formal testing in the additional Test Books for the teacher The New Cambridge English Course Level 3-Intermediate and Level 4-Upper-intermediate can be used by learners who have studied Levels 1 and 2, or as intermediate and upper-intermediate courses in their own right. The organisation and structure of the course has particular benefits at these levels, enabling learners to make clearly-marked progress through the " intermediate plateau", deepening their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary and at the same time developing their fluency and communication skills. The overall approach of the series ensures variety, personal involvement, stimulation and growth at this all-important level. Level 4 takes learners up to First Certificate standard, where they can take this or an equivalent exam with confidence, given suitable exam skills practice. [via]
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Wordby Randall KennedyISBN 0375713719 (0-375-71371-9)
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An Old English Grammarby Randolph Quirk, C.L. WrennISBN 0415045347 (0-415-04534-7)
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Portraits of The Whiteman: Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apacheby Keith H. BassoISBN 0521295939 (0-521-29593-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Portraits of The Whiteman: Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache'Book summary:'The Whiteman' is one of the most powerful and pervasive symbols in contemporary American Indian cultures. Portraits of 'the Whiteman': linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache investigates a complex form of joking in which Apaches stage carefully crafted imitations of Anglo-Americans and, by means of these characterizations, give audible voice and visible substance to their conceptions of this most pressing of social 'problems'. Keith Basso's essay, based on linguistic and ethnographic materials collected in Cibecue, a Western Apache community, provides interpretations of selected joking encounters to demonstrate how Apaches go about making sense of the behaviour of Anglo-Americans. This study draws on theory in symbolic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and the dramaturgical model of human communication developed by Erving Goffman. Although the assumptions and premises that shape these areas of inquiry are held by some to be quite disparate, this analysis shows them to be fully compatible and mutually complementary. [via]
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Principles and Methods for Historical Linguisticsby Robert J. Jeffers, Ilse LehisteISBN 0262600110 (0-262-60011-0)
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Psycholinguisticsby Michael GarmanISBN 0521276411 (0-521-27641-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Psycholinguistics'Book summary:This book is an introduction to psycholinguistics, the study of human language processing. It deals with the central areas of this field, the language abilities of the linguistically mature, monolingual adult. Within this scope it offers comprehensive coverage, dealing with both spoken and written language, their comprehension and production, and with the nature of linguistic systems and models of processing. The final chapter looks at the impairment of language processing in aphasia and related disorders, and examines the issues that arise from it. Psycholinguistics will be an essential work for both students and specialists in linguistics and psychology. [via]
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Pygmalionby George Bernard ShawISBN 0486282228 (0-486-28222-8)
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The Romance Languagesby Martin Harris, Nigel VincentISBN 0415164176 (0-415-16417-6)
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Silmarillionby J. R. R. TolkienISBN 0345325818 (0-345-32581-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silmarillion'Book summary:Although The Silmarillion takes place in the same imaginary world as J.J.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and was originally published four years after the author's death and over two decades after the former book, it is set much earlier, in the First Age of the World. The tales and the book which reads as a fusion between a story collection and historical chronicle, are a matter of legend even to the characters of The Lord of the Rings:
In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Ilúvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him
Tolkien wrote the heart of this material very early in his career, and continued to work on it throughout his life. It fell to his son, Christopher Tolkien, to edit it into book form, and such proved the unquenchable public appetite that he subsequently oversaw 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth. This edition features 20 highly evocative colour plates by Ted Nasmith, themselves worth the price of admission, while reinforcing the sense of a historical work are genealogical tables, an extensive index, appendix and colour map. Far removed from the genial style of The Hobbit, this is Tolkien at his most formal, his prose austere, poetically beautiful, his storytelling capturing the epic scale, high drama and melancholy wonder of myth. These stories of elves and heroes and old gods are quite literally the foundation of the entire modern fantasy-publishing revival, and are therefore essential reading. --Gary S. Dalkin [via]More editions of Silmarillion:
Statistical Language Learningby Eugene CharniakISBN 0262531410 (0-262-53141-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistical Language Learning'Book summary:Eugene Charniak breaks new ground in artificial intelligenceresearch by presenting statistical language processing from an artificial intelligence point of view in a text for researchers and scientists with a traditional computer science background.New, exacting empirical methods are needed to break the deadlock in such areas of artificial intelligence as robotics, knowledge representation, machine learning, machine translation, and natural language processing (NLP). It is time, Charniak observes, to switch paradigms. This text introduces statistical language processing techniques ;word tagging, parsing with probabilistic context free grammars, grammar induction, syntactic disambiguation, semantic wordclasses, word-sense disambiguation ;along with the underlying mathematics and chapter exercises.Charniak points out that as a method of attacking NLP problems, the statistical approach has several advantages. It is grounded in real text and therefore promises to produce usable results, and it offers an obvious way to approach learning: "one simply gathers statistics."Language, Speech, and Communication
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Statistics in Language Studiesby Arthur Hughes, Paul Fletcher, Anthony WoodsISBN 0521273129 (0-521-27312-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Statistics in Language Studies'Book summary:This book demonstrates the contribution that statistics can and should make to linguistic studies. The range of work to which statistical analysis is applicable is vast: including, for example, language acquisition, language variation and many aspects of applied linguistics. The authors give a wide variety of linguistic examples to demonstrate the use of statistics in summarising data in the most appropriate way, and then making helpful inferences from the processed information. The range of techniques introduced by the book will help the reader both to evaluate and make use of literature which employs statistical analysis, and to apply statistics in their own research. Each chapter gives step-by-step explanations of particular techniques using examples from a number of fields, and is followed by extensive exercises. The early part of the book provides a thorough grounding in probability and statistical inference, and then progresses through methods such as chi-squared and analysis of variance, to multivariate methods such as cluster analysis, principal components analysis and factor analysis. None of these techniques requires the reader to have a grasp of mathematics more complex than simple algebra. Students and researchers in many fields of linguistics will find this book an invaluable introduction to the use of statistics, and a practical text for the development of skills in the application of statistics. [via]
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The Story of Frenchby Jean-Benoit Nadeau, Julie BarlowISBN 0312341830 (0-312-34183-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Story of French'Book summary:[via]Why does everything sound better if it's said in French? That fascination is at the heart of The Story of French, the first history of one of the most beautiful languages in the world that was, at one time, the pre-eminent language of literature, science and diplomacy. Nadeau and Barlow chart the history of a language spoken as a native tongue by 130 million people around the globe. The first document written in the French was signed by the sons of Charlemagne in 832. After this, Latin was purged from the courts of France by Francois 1st, giving root to French speakers' 21st century obsession with language protection. The obsession progressed as Cardinal Richelieu established the French Academy, a group entrusted with the responsibility of keeping the language pure and eloquent. As French circled the globe, the international cast of characters included Montaigne, Catherine the Great, Frederic II of Prussia, the guides of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Jules Verne, and others. Let Nadeau and Barlow guide you through the story of a language used to write some of the world's great masterpieces of literature, construct some of the most important documents of diplomacy, bedevil millions with its vagaries of pronunciation and beguile everyone with its beauty.More editions of The Story of French:
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The Story of Writing: With over 350 Illustrations, 50 in Colorby Andrew RobinsonISBN 0500016658 (0-500-01665-8)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs, and Pictogramsby Andrew RobinsonISBN 0500281564 (0-500-28156-4)
Softcover, Thames & Hudson
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The Structure of the Japanese Languageby Susumu KunoISBN 0262110490 (0-262-11049-0)
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Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of Englishby David M. Perlmutter, Scott SoamesISBN 0520038339 (0-520-03833-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Syntax of Wordsby Elisabeth SelkirkISBN 0262690799 (0-262-69079-9)
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Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men in the Workplace Language, Sex, and Powerby Deborah TannenISBN 0380717832 (0-380-71783-2)
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In her extraordinary international bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen transformed forever the way we look at intimate relationships between women and men. Now she turns her keen ear and observant eye toward the workplace--where the ways in which men and women communicate can determine who gets heard, who gets ahead, and what gets done.
An instant classic, Talking From 9 to 5 brilliantly explains women's and men's conversational rituals--and the language barriers we unintentionally erect in the business world. It is a unique and invaluable guide to recognizing the verbal power games and miscommunications that cause good work to be underappreciated or go unnoticed--an essential tool for promoting more positive and productive professional relationships among men and women.
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Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interfaceby Beth Levin, Malka Rappaport HovavISBN 0262620944 (0-262-62094-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Unaccusativity: At the Syntax-Lexical Semantics Interface'Book summary:This text presents an extended investigation into a set of linguistic phenomena that have received much attention over the last 15 years. Besides providing support for David Perlmutter's hypothesis that unaccusativity is syntactically represented but semantically determined, this book contributes to the development of a theory of lexical semantic representation and to the elucidation of the mapping from lexical semantics to syntax. Perlmutter's Unaccusative Hypothesis proposes that there are two classes of intransitive verbs - unergatives and unaccusatives - each associated with a distinct syntactic configuration. Unaccusativity begins by isolating the semantic factors that determine whether a verb will be unaccusative or unergative through a careful examination of the behaviour of intransitive verbs from a range of semantic classes in diverse syntactic constructions. Notable are the extensive discussions of verbs of motion, verbs of emission, and various types of verbs of change of state. The authors then introduce rules that determine the syntactic expression of the arguments of the verbs investigated and examine the interactions among them. The proper treatment of verbs that systematically show multiple meanings - and hence variable classification as unaccusative or unergative - is also considered. In the final chapter, the authors argue that the distribution of locative inversion, a purported unaccusative diagnostic, is determined instead by discourse considerations. [via]
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Understanding English Grammarby Robert Funk, Martha KollnISBN 0321316835 (0-321-31683-5)
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Universals of Languageby GreenbergISBN 0262570084 (0-262-57008-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Universals of Language'Book summary:In 1961, the first International Conference on Universals in Language convened to consider the possibility of creating "something of the order of cross-cultural files for a large sample of languages."In the preliminary memorandum of this historic meeting, it was proposed that "midst infinite diversity, all languages are, as it were, cut from the same pattern." Eight of the papers presented in this volume investigate, discuss, and analyze specific proposals regarding language universals; three final papers offer summaries from the viewpoints of linguistics, cultural anthropology, and psychology; an appendix provides 45 actual language universals based on a study of 30 languages including Japanese, Hebrew, Basque, Swahili, and Maya.This book is an all-important result of a conference at which, as psychologist Charles Osgood stated, "we have been witness to a bloodless revolution. Quietly and without polemics we have seen linguistics taking a giant step from being merely a method for describing language to being a fullfledged science of language."Roman Jakobson, noted linquist, wrote: "it may well turn out that what is universal in language functions much more powerfully, and in a more fundamental way, to shape men's thoughts than what is different..."
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Vox Latina: A Guide to the Pronunciation of Classical Latinby William Sidney AllenISBN 0521379369 (0-521-37936-9)
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Words Without Meaningby Christopher GaukerISBN 0262571625 (0-262-57162-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Words Without Meaning'Book summary:According to the received view of linguistic communication, the primary function of language is to enable speakers to reveal the propositional contents of their thoughts to hearers. Speakers are able to do this because they share with their hearers an understanding of the meanings of words. Christopher Gauker rejects this conception of language, arguing that it rests on an untenable conception of mental representation and yields a wrong account of the norms of discourse.Gauker's alternative starts with the observation that conversations have goals and that the best way to achieve the goal of a conversation depends on the circumstances under which the conversation takes place. These goals and circumstances determine a context of utterance quite apart from the attitudes of the interlocutors. The fundamental norms of discourse are formulated in terms of the conditions under which sentences are assertible in such contexts.Words without Meaning contains original solutions to a wide array of outstanding problems in the philosophy of language, including the logic of quantification, the logic of conditionals, the semantic paradoxes, the nature of presupposition and implicature, and the nature and attribution of beliefs.
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