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Guilty by Definition: The debut linguistic mystery novel from Dictionary Corner's resident lexicographer Susie Dent 9781804183946
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €13.78THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!The must-have gift for the reader in your life this Christmas.'KEPT ME READING EAGERLY'Philip Pullman'HUGE FUN AND, AS YOU'D EXPECT, ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN' Gyles Brandreth'QUITE SIMPLY ONE OF THE FINEST MYSTERIES I... -
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.67A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don't have the words to express, until now-from the creator of the popular online project of the same name.Have you ever... -
Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings by Susie Dent
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.20Join Susie Dent, lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, on a curious and exceedingly interesting adventure through all the very best RED HERRINGS, COCK AND BULL STORIES and NINE-DAY WONDERS in the English language.Who... -
The Language of Tattoos: 150 Symbols and What They Mean by Oliver Munden
RRP: €21.42Booksplease Price: €14.74This beautifully illustrated guide delves deep into the meaning and significance of different tattoo symbols, exploring the rich cultural history around the world of this widespread form of body art. Tattoos are everywhere: one in three of us has at... -
Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47What is the difference between mean and median, blatant and flagrant, flout and flaunt? Is it whodunnit or whodunit? Do you know? Are you sure?With Troublesome Words, journalist and bestselling travel-writer Bill Bryson gives us a clear, concise and... -
Collins Italian Dictionary Complete and Unabridged: For advanced learners and professionals by Collins Dictionaries
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €42.86The home of trusted Italian dictionaries for everyday language learning. A large-format English to Italian and Italian to English bilingual dictionary for serious students of Italian with up-to-date vocabulary and breadth of coverage. This is... -
The Pocket Yorkshire English Gemini 9781786751874
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €6.75The dialects of English still spoken in Yorkshire, known collectively as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke or Yorkie, are both colourful and instantly recognisable. This handy beginner's guide to 'how to speak Yorkshire' will have you giving Sean Bean or Jodie... -
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.78An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was... -
Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English Ben Yagoda 9780691262291
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €18.55A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms-for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America-from French fries to Awesome, man!-are destroying the English language. But what... -
Origin Uncertain: Unraveling the Mysteries of Etymology by Anatoly Liberman 9780197664919
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €20.53Lost origins of words revealed. We like to recount that goodbye started out as "god be with you," that whiskey comes from the Gaelic for "water of life," or that avocado originated as the Aztec word for "testicle." But there are many words with... -
Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.47'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...'Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. With his boundless enthusiasm and restless eye for the absurd, this is his... -
Red Herrings & White Elephants - The Origins of the Phrases We Use Every Day by Albert Jack
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.59'The man with all the answers in Albert Jack' Daily Express'Square meal' 'Load of old codswallop' 'Egg on your face' 'In the limelight'. . .The English language is littered with everyday expressions like these, but have you ever stopped to wonder what... -
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver 9780199568369
RRP: €18.43Booksplease Price: €13.59The Ring of Words describes the powerful and unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien's earliest employment was as an assistant... -
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie by John Simpson
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €4.71Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition of researching and editing, showing us both the technical lexicography needed to understand a... -
Radical: A Life of My Own by Xiaolu Guo 9781529920024
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.78The new memoir from prize-winning writer and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo - playful, provocative and original, it's her deeply personal take on striving for a life of her own'When it comes to spinning light and shadow on the complexities of living, loving and... -
Lexical Acquisition: Exploiting On-line Resources To Build A Lexicon Uri Zernik 9780805811278
RRP: €89.24Booksplease Price: €81.88On-line information -- and free text in particular -- has emerged as a major, yet unexploited, resource available in raw form. Available, but not accessible. The lexicon provides the major key for enabling accessibility to on-line text. The expert... -
Introduction to Natural Language Processing by Jacob Eisenstein
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €61.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262042840Author Jacob EisensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 29mm -
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Kory Stamper 9781101970263
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €12.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101970263Author Kory StamperFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc -
F*ck Off, I'm Coloring! Swear Word Coloring Book: 40 Cuss Words and Insults to Color & Relax: Adult Coloring Books by Adult Coloring Books 9781945260032
Booksplease Price: €7.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945260032Author Adult Coloring BooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Charles Foster ArtPublisher Charles Foster ArtWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)... -
Lexical Priming: A New Theory of Words and Language by Michael Hoey 9780415328630
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €42.11Lexical Priming proposes a radical new theory of the lexicon, which amounts to a completely new theory of language based on how words are used in the real world. Here they are not confined to the definitions given to them in dictionaries but instead... -
Words in the Mind: An Introduction to the Mental Lexicon by Jean Aitchison 9780470656471
RRP: €54.68Booksplease Price: €48.86Featuring new coverage of the brain and language, and lexical corpora, the 4th edition of Words in the Mind offers readers the latest thinking about the ways in which we learn words, remember them, understand them, and find the ones we want to use. ... -
Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A. Garner Talk Language and Writing by Bryan Garner 9780991118113
RRP: €13.98Booksplease Price: €10.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991118113Author Bryan GarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Rosepen BooksPublisher Rosepen BooksWeight(grams) 195gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm -
The Lexicon by William F. Buckley Jr 9780156006163
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €11.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156006163Author William F. Buckley JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Harcourt Brace InternationalPublisher Harcourt Brace International -
Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction by Lynda Mugglestone
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.00Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - and on what grounds? Dictionaries are far more than works which list the words and meanings of a... -
The Minimalist Program by Noam Chomsky
RRP: €39.27Booksplease Price: €37.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262527347Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary by Lynda Mugglestone 9780300106992
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €35.62The untold story of the complex word battles fought by the creators of the first Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) holds a cherished position in English literary culture. The story behind the creation of what is indisputably... -
The Whole World in a Book: Dictionaries in the Nineteenth Century by Sarah Ogilvie 9780190913199
Booksplease Price: €48.08Nineteenth-century readers had an appetite for books so big they seemed to contain the whole world: immense novels, series of novels, encyclopaedias. Especially in Eurasia and North America, especially among the middle and upper classes, people had the... -
Patterns of meaning in lexicography and lexicology by Laura Giacomini 9783111480756
Booksplease Price: €126.24The book takes its cue from the topics of PhrasaLex, a workshop dedicated to phraseological approaches to learner's lexicography which took place for the second time in July 2021 and is connected to the lexicographic project PhraseBase. Considering... -
Dictionary Days by Ilan Stavans 9781555974190
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51A dictionary, despite its heroic efforts to pin down language, is destined for failure the moment a single word is printed; for language, with its eternal mutations, is forever uncontainable. Award-winning essayist Ilyan Stavans explores the human need... -
Internet Lexicography: An Introduction Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus 9783111205212
Booksplease Price: €129.12The Internet has become the central publication platform for dictionaries. This profound change in the dictionary landscape gives rise to a whole range of new questions for lexicographic practice and dictionary research. This volume provides for the... -
Dictionary Use and Dictionary Teaching: New Challenges in a Multilingual, Digital and Global World Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus 9783111372297
Booksplease Price: €129.02Foreign language learners often use electronic dictionaries or other information from the Internet to solve language problems. However, they seem to have great difficulty using dictionaries and online resources appropriately, profitably and successfully... -
The theory and practice of examples in bilingual dictionaries by Alfonso Rascón Caballero 9783111375618
Booksplease Price: €126.24The dictionary example is the culminating component of the information presented in articles of dictionaries intended for language learning. This study analyses the example comprehensively: its provenance, its theoretical status, its distinction from... -
Lexicography, Translation, and Text-Critical Matters in Hebrew, Greek, and Syriac Anne Gardner 9781463245856
RRP: €105.91Booksplease Price: €101.11The series Perspectives on the Linguistics of Ancient Languages publishes research papers presented at the annual meetings of the International Syriac Language Project. The papers in this volume are specialised lexicographical studies in Hebrew,... -
Liddell and Scott: The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek by Christopher Stray 9780198810803
RRP: €151.73Booksplease Price: €122.50The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the... -
Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus 9780262548649
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €16.65If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied by another, more complicated one: if there is... -
An Introduction to English Lexicology: Words, Meaning and Vocabulary by Professor Howard Jackson
Booksplease Price: €36.30What are words? Where do words come from? How are they used? Answering these questions and more, this book guides you through the key concepts in the lexicology of modern English. Providing an overview which encompasses all aspects of English... -
The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language by Peter Martin 9780691188911
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €24.51A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a... -
Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined Our Language by Bryan A. Garner 9781567928075
RRP: €55.92Booksplease Price: €38.37"A delight"-BooklistA richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing to the present day. Dictionaries are repositories of erudition, monuments to linguistic authority, and... -
Dictionary Of Indian English by V Subhash 9789354374487
RRP: €7.85Booksplease Price: €7.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354374487Author V SubhashFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint V. SubhashPublisher V. SubhashWeight(grams) 64gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 2mm -
Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicon of Language Contact by Benajmin Foster
RRP: €148.74Booksplease Price: €134.62Ancient Palestine served as a land bridge between the continents of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and as a result, the ancient Israelites frequently interacted with speakers of non-Semitic languages, including Egyptian, Greek, Hittite and Luwian, Hurrian,...