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Understanding Language eBook Series

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  • Understanding Language Change

    by Kate Burridge, Alexander Bergs ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position.Understanding Language Change offers a complete ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Saussure

    by John E. Joseph ...
    "In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic differences issuing from this system." (From the posthumous Course in General Linguistics, 1916.) No one becomes as famous as Saussure without both admirers ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

  • Language Policy

    by D. Johnson ...
    Series series Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics
    A detailed overview of the theories, concepts, research methods, and findings in the field of language policy is provided here in one accessible source. The author proposes new methodological, theoretical, and conceptual directions and offers guidance for doing language policy research. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Maliseet Vocabulary

    by Montague Chamberlain ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Historical Sociolinguistics

    Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England

    by Terttu Nevalainen, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg ...
    Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England is the seminal text in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Demonstrating the real-world application of sociolinguistic research methodologies, this book examines the social factors which promoted linguistic changes in English, laying the foundation for Modern Standard English.This revised edition of Nevalainen and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Translation: A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by J. House ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The cross-linguistic and cross-cultural practice of translation is a field of rapidly growing international importance. World-renowned experts offer new and multidisciplinary insights on this subject, viewing translation as social action and intercultural communication, and as a phenomenon of languages in contact and a socio-cognitive process. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Social Variation and the Latin Language

    by J. N. Adams ...
    Languages show variations according to the social class of speakers and Latin was no exception, as readers of Petronius are aware. The Romance languages have traditionally been regarded as developing out of a 'language of the common people' (Vulgar Latin), but studies of modern languages demonstrate that linguistic change does not merely come, in the social sense, 'from below'. There is change ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Yearbook of Morphology 2001

    Edited by Jaap van Marle, G.E. Booij ...
    Series series Yearbook of Morphology
    A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. The Yearbook of Morphology series, published since 1988, has proven to be an eminent support for this upswing of morphological research, since it contains articles on topics which are central in the current theoretical debates which are frequently referred to.In the Yearbook of Morphology 2001 a number of articles is devoted to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Changing English Language

    Psycholinguistic Perspectives

    Edited by Marianne Hundt, Sandra Mollin, Simone E. Pfenninger ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Bringing together experts from both historical linguistics and psychology, this volume addresses core factors in language change from the perspectives of both fields. It explores the potential (and limitations) of such an interdisciplinary approach, covering the following factors: frequency, salience, chunking, priming, analogy, ambiguity and acquisition. Easily accessible, the book features ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Binomials in the History of English

    Fixed and Flexible

    Edited by Joanna Kopaczyk, Hans Sauer ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical category and linked by a semantic relationship. They are an important phraseological phenomenon present throughout the history of the English language. This volume offers a range of studies on binomials, their types and functions from Old English through to ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Borrowing

    Loanwords in the Speech Community and in the Grammar

    by Shana Poplack ...
    Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its majormanifestation, the incorporation of words from one language into the discourse of another. This volume redresses that imbalance by going straight to the source: bilingual speakers in their social context. Building on more than three decades of original research based on vast quantities of ... Read more

    $44.99 USD