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    The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. ... Read more

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  • The Semiotics of Emoji

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    by Professor Marcel Danesi ...
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  • Attitudes to Endangered Languages

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  • Change in Contemporary English

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    by Marianne Hundt, Christian Mair, Nicholas Smith, Geoffrey Leech ...
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    by Alex Mullen ...
    Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
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  • The Ecology and Semiotics of Language Learning

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    by Leo van Lier ...
    Series Book 3 - Educational Linguistics
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    by Ulrich Lins ...
    Translated by Humphrey Tonkin ...
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  • Politeness in East Asia

    Edited by Dániel Z. Kádár, Sara Mills ...
    We use politeness every day when interacting with other people. Yet politeness is an impressively complex linguistic process, and studying it can tell us a lot about the social and cultural values of social groups or even a whole society, helping us to understand how humans 'encode' states of mind in their words. The traditional, stereotypical view is that people in East Asian cultures are ... Read more

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  • Language Diversity in the USA

    Edited by Kim Potowski ...
    What are the most widely spoken non-English languages in the USA? How did they reach the USA? Who speaks them, to whom, and for what purposes? What changes do these languages undergo as they come into contact with English? This book investigates the linguistic diversity of the USA by profiling the twelve most commonly used languages other than English. Each chapter paints a portrait of the history ... Read more

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