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Learning about Language eBook Series

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  • The Earliest English

    An Introduction to Old English Language

    by Chris Mccully, Sharon Hilles ...
    Series series Learning about Language
    The Earliest Englishprovides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Empires of the Word

    A Language History of the World

    by Nicholas Ostler ...
    A "monumental" account of the rise and fall of languages, with "many fresh insights, useful historical anecdotes, and charming linguistic oddities" ( Chicago Tribune).Nicholas Ostler's Empires of the Word is the first history of the world's great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that bind communities together and make possible both the living of a common history and the telling ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Letter Perfect

    The Marvelous History of Our Alphabet From A to Z

    by David Sacks ...
    A fun, lively, and learned excursion into the alphabet—and cultural history.Letters are tangible language. Joining together in endless combinations to actually show speech, letters convey our messages and tell our stories. While we encounter these tiny shapes hundreds of times a day, we take for granted the long, fascinating history behind one of the most fundamental of human inventions: the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Graphology and Health - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Signs of Physical and Mental Health in Handwriting

    by Various ...
    This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the subject of graphology. The titles in this range include "Graphology and Character" "Graphology and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Native Languages of South America

    Origins, Development, Typology

    Edited by Loretta O'Connor, Pieter Muysken ...
    In South America indigenous languages are extremely diverse. There are over one hundred language families in this region alone. Contributors from around the world explore the history and structure of these languages, combining insights from archaeology and genetics with innovative linguistic analysis. The book aims to uncover regional patterns and potential deeper genealogical relations between ... Read more

    $127.09 USD

  • A Political History of Spanish

    The Making of a Language

    Edited by José Del Valle ...
    Spanish is spoken as a first language by almost 400 million people in approximately 60 countries, and has been the subject of numerous political processes and debates since it began to spread globally from Iberia in the thirteenth century. A Political History of Spanish brings together a team of experts to analyze the metalinguistic origins of Spanish and evaluate it as a discursively constructed ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Proto-Indo-European Language

    FACE UNVEILED !

    by Alvaro Hans ...
    The Indo-European (IE) is the largest among the family of languages in the world, with 445 languages spoken by around 46% of the global population. Linguists have been looking for the mother of IE family, fondly called Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language but their decades of search have not revealed the face of PIE till now. What others have been missing so far, the author of this book Alvaro Hans ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Parts of Speech in Mandarin

    The State of the Art

    by Candice Chi-Hang Cheung ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive survey of the major parts of speech in Mandarin. Seeking to identify the sets of universal and language-specific categories, it compares the range of categories available in Mandarin and the Indo-European languages and establishes six universal categories – nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and conjunctions – and three language-specific ones, namely ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Politics of Dubbing

    Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy

    by Carla Mereu Keating ...
    Series Book 20 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    During the late 1920s and the 1930s, the Italian government sought various commercial and politically oriented solutions to cope with the advent of new sound technologies in cinema. The translation of foreign-language films became a recurrent topic of ongoing debates surrounding the use of the Italian language, the rebirth of the national film industry and cinema’s mass popularity.Through the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Standards of English

    Codified Varieties around the World

    Edited by Raymond Hickey ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    The notion of a 'standard' variety of English has been the subject of a considerable body of research. Studies have tended to focus on the standard features of British and American English. However, more recently interest has turned to the other varieties of English that have developed around the world and the ways in which these have also been standardised. This volume provides the first book ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • The Experience of Education in Anglo-Saxon Literature

    by Irina Dumitrescu ...
    Series Book 102 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
    Anglo-Saxons valued education yet understood how precarious it could be, alternately bolstered and undermined by fear, desire, and memory. They praised their teachers in official writing, but composed and translated scenes of instruction that revealed the emotional and cognitive complexity of learning. Irina Dumitrescu explores how early medieval writers used fictional representations of education ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • How English Became the Global Language

    by D. Northrup ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this book, the first written about the globalization of the English language by a professional historian, the exploration of English's global ascendancy receives its proper historical due. This brief, accessible volume breaks new ground in its organization, emphasis on causation, and conclusions. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD