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  • An Atlas of English Dialects

    Region and Dialect

    by Clive Upton, J.D.A Widdowson ...
    Do you call it April Fools’ Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin’ Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the Backend? When you’re out of breath, do you pant, puff, pank, tift or thock?The words we use (and the sounds we make when we use them) are more often than not a product of where we live, and An Atlas of English Dialects shows the reader where certain words, sounds and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Learning about Linguistics

    by F.C. Stork, J.D.A. Widdowson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
    This book offers a workbook approach to linguistics and provides guidelines for the study of language. It aims to give basic information and to indicate something of the background and development of the more important trends in the subject.Each chapter includes exercises which lead the reader outwards from the information given in the text. A list of suggested further reading and references ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore)

    The Resilience of the Oral Tradition

    by Herbert Halpert, J.D.A. Widdowson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Folklore
    This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to collect as broad a spectrum of traditional material as possible, and Folktales of Newfoundland is notable not only for the number and quality of its narratives, but also for the format in which they are presented. A special transcription ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

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    by Felicity Cox, Janet Fletcher ...
    Australian English Pronunciation and Transcription is the first textbook to clearly describe Australian English speech patterns. Now in its second edition, this ground-breaking work addresses speech production characteristics and provides detailed instruction in both phonetic and phonemic transcription of the dialect. Each chapter features practical exercises to allow readers to develop skills and ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • The Mother Tongue

    English and How it Got that Way

    by Bill Bryson ...
    “Vastly informative and vastly entertaining…A scholarly and fascinating book.” —Los Angeles TimesWith dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson 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 explores English ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Introductory Phonology

    by Bruce P. Hayes ...
    Series Book 32 - Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics
    Accessible, succinct, and including numerous student-friendly features, this introductory textbook offers an exceptional foundation to the field for those who are coming to it for the first time.Provides an ideal first course book in phonology, written by a renowned phonologistDeveloped and tested in the classroom through years of experience and useEmphasizes analysis of phonological data, placing ... Read more

    $50.00 USD

  • The Outlandish Companion (Revised and Updated)

    Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn

    by Diana Gabaldon ...
    Series series Outlander
    Perfect for readers of the bestselling Outlander novels—and don’t miss The Outlandish Companion Volume Two!#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series. From the moment Claire Randall stepped through a standing stone circle and was thrown back in time to the year ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Language and Linguistics: The Key Concepts

    by R.L. Trask ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include:terms used in grammatical analysisbranches of linguistics from semantics to neurolinguisticsapproaches used in studying language from critical discourse analysis to systemic linguisticslinguistic phenomena from code-switching to conversational ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Outlandish Companion Volume Two

    The Companion to The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, and Written in My Own Heart's Blood

    by Diana Gabaldon ...
    Series series Outlander
    Perfect readers of the bestselling Outlander novels—and don’t miss the revised and updated first volume of The Outlandish Companion!More than a decade ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon delighted her legions of fans with The Outlandish Companion, an indispensable guide to all the Outlander books at the time. But that edition was just a taste of things to come. Since that ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • A Secret Vice

    Tolkien on Invented Languages

    by J. R. R. Tolkien ...
    First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.J.R.R. Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Language and Linguistics

    by John Lyons ...
    This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: ... Read more

    $65.59 USD