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Metadiscourse by Ken Hyland
RRP: $44.58$38.78First released in 2005, Ken Hyland's Metadiscourse has become a canonical account of how language is used in written communication. 'Metadiscourse' is defined as the ways that writers reflect on their texts to refer to themselves, their readers or the... -
The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between British and American English by Lynne Murphy
RRP: $17.14$12.20'The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is also a funny and rollicking read.' The Economist,... -
The Dawn of Language: The story of how we came to talk by Sverker Johansson
RRP: $22.28$14.75"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLEWho was "the first speaker" and what was their first message?An erudite, tightly woven and beautifully written account of one of humanity's greatest mysteries - the origins of language.Drawing on evidence... -
The F***ing History of Swearing by Anna Maria Kiosse
RRP: $22.28$15.44This book is a bold and expressively designed treasure trove of information about the history of swearing. With its bold and expressive design, The F***ing History of Swearing is an outstanding visual feast. Swearing is and always has been regarded as... -
Pocket Kenkyusha Japanese Dictionary by Shigeru Takebayashi
RRP: $25.71$16.74The Pocket Kenkyusha Japanese Dictionary is an essential reference for any English-speaker learning Japanese, whether they're studying the language at school or university, or learning it on their own. It offers detailed coverage of Japanese... -
Italian Grammar You Really Need To Know: A Practical Course by Anna Proudfoot
RRP: $25.71$16.81Do you want to bring clarity to your communication by:- getting to grips with the building blocks of Italian?- learning the right language for the right context?- speaking and writing with ease and style?In this course you'll find comprehensive and clear... -
The Power of Language: Multilingualism, Self and Society by Viorica Marian
RRP: $37.74$26.79Why should we learn more than one language?Can it change the way we think?Does it have the power to transform how we see the world?You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. Some people... -
Complete Biblical Hebrew: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Biblical Hebrew, with Original Texts by Sarah Nicholson
RRP: $51.44$33.28Is this the right book for me?Do you want to be able to read Biblical Hebrew with confidence? Find all the essential tools in this best-selling course from Teach Yourself - the No. 1 brand in language learning. Learn through original texts that make... -
How to Swear by Stephen Wildish
RRP: $22.28$15.59Grasping how to swear is a crucial skill to any English-speaker, but it can be a tricky business. Owing to the rich and complex history of swearing, a single word can have a host of different meanings - from expressing surprise, excitement, anger,... -
The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions: Discover the True Stories Behind the English Language's 64 Most Popular Sayings by James McGuire 9781732512603
$24.91The Illustrated Histories of Everyday Expressions uncovers the fascinating, humorous, and often unbelievable origin stories behind the English language's most common sayings!Nobody thinks twice about sayings like bite the bullet and the cat's out of the... -
English Words and Sentences: An Introduction by Eva Duran Eppler
RRP: $48.01$44.34Hands-on, theory-neutral and non-technical, this textbook is a basic introduction to the structure of English words and sentences. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistic analysis, it presents the facts in a straightforward manner and offers a... -
Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z by Gregory Kenicer
RRP: $29.14$23.67Dr Gregory Kenicer brings us a concise but through exploration of plants and their names in the Scots language through the ages. Presented as a dictionary, and covering a vast variety of flower, funghi and mosses, this book seeks to present the rich... -
Language, Society and Power: An Introduction by Annabelle Mooney 9780367638443
RRP: $51.44$45.70Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society, and how it varies according to age,... -
Vagueness and the Evolution of Consciousness: Through the Looking Glass by Michael Tye 9780198892953
RRP: $29.14$26.79When Alice steps through the looking-glass, she encounters a peculiar world where she meets animated chess pieces, characters from nursery rhymes, and talking animals. Everything there is inside out and upside down: so it is with consciousness. ... -
A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English by University Peter G Beidler
RRP: $17.07$11.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603811026Author Contributor Peter G BeidlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Coffeetown PressPublisher Coffeetown PressWeight(grams)... -
The Pursuit of Signs by Jonathan Culler
RRP: $22.28$20.48To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both... -
Kiss My...: Dictionary of English-Irish Slang by Garry Bannister
RRP: $13.71$8.80Find out what the gaeilgeoir means when he/she uses the Irish words for 'nerdy', 'well-hung', 'effing and blinding', 'slimeball' or 'drop-dead-gorgeous'? It's all there, with numerous entries under the letters C and F. Already a cult hit, Kiss My... will... -
Linguistics: An Introduction by Andrew Radford
RRP: $77.17$68.41Written by a team based at one of the world's leading centres for linguistic teaching and research, the second edition of this highly successful textbook offers a unified approach to language, viewed from a range of perspectives essential for students'... -
Theatre as Sign System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance by Elaine Aston
RRP: $61.73$54.36This invaluable student handbook is the first detailed guide to explain in detail the relationship between the drama text and the theory and practice of drama in performance. Beginning at the beginning, with accessible explanations of the meanings and... -
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language by Professor of Linguistics John McWhorter
RRP: $30.86$20.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060520854Author Professor of Linguistics John McWhorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers... -
Words Words Words by David Crystal
RRP: $18.85$13.33Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life of its own: it only... -
Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By by Arran Stibbe 9781350263116
RRP: $42.87$35.06Econarratives are all around us, describing and shaping human interactions with other species and the physical environment. This book provides a foundational theory of econarrative, drawing from narratology, human ecology, critical discourse analysis,... -
Get Started in Swedish Absolute Beginner Course: (Book and audio support) by Vera Croghan
RRP: $42.87$28.10Do you want a solid foundation to your Swedish studies?If you are looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course will get you speaking, writing, reading and understanding Swedish in no time... -
The Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter
RRP: $19.71$17.24Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This... -
Tourette Syndrome by Mary Robertson
RRP: $25.71$18.78Tourette's Syndrome (TS) is an inherited neuropsychiatric disorder affecting up to 1% of the population. It is characterised by motor and vocal tics, and upsetting anti-social behaviour such as involuntary swearing and obscene gestures. This second... -
The Act of Reading: A Theory of Aesthetic Response by Wolfgang Iser
RRP: $47.17$40.55Iser examines what happens during the reading process, and how it is basic to the development of a theory of aesthetic response, setting in motion a chain of events that depends both on the text and the exercise of certain human faculties.About the... -
The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays: Riders to the Sea; The Shadow of the Glen; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of the Saints; The Playboy of the Western World; Deirdre of the Sorrows by J. M. Synge
RRP: $13.71$9.93J M Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers all of Synge's plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism. The... -
Run a Lap: Phase 2 Set 4 Blending practice (Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised) by Natasha Paul 9780008668211
RRP: $8.15$8.08Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that... -
The Study of Language by George Yule 9781009233408
$47.69This bestselling textbook provides an engaging and user-friendly introduction to the study of language. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, Yule presents information in bite-sized sections, clearly explaining the major concepts in linguistics and... -
The Evolution of Language by W. Tecumseh Fitch
RRP: $84.03$75.51Language, more than anything else, is what makes us human. It appears that no communication system of equivalent power exists elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Any normal human child will learn a language based on rather sparse data in the surrounding... -
Spirit Whirled: The Deaf Phoenicians by Dylan Saccoccio
RRP: $34.65$29.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544784793Author Dylan SaccoccioFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Cicero: Philippics I-II by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: $48.01$43.65This edition is the first since J. D. Denniston's of 1926 to present the Latin text of and a commentary on the First and Second Philippics, two of the most polished orations in the Ciceronian corpus. These speeches, which were composed less than six... -
Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers by Robert L. Trivers 9780195130621
RRP: $79.74$72.37Robert Trivers is one of the leading figures pioneering the field of sociobiology. For Natural Selection and Social Theory, he has selected eleven of his most influential papers, including several classic papers from the early 1970s on the evolution of... -
The Accidental Dictionary: The Remarkable Twists and Turns of English Words by Paul Anthony Jones 9781783964383
RRP: $15.42$10.34How well do you know your words?; Buxom used to mean obedient; A cloud was a rock; Raunchy originally meant dirty; Brimming with hidden histories and tantalising twists, The Accidental Dictionary tells the extraordinary stories behind ordinary words.;... -
The Art of Disagreeing Well: How To Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo 9780008498658
RRP: $32.57$28.78'Electrifying ... A user manual for our polarized world' Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again 'Important, compelling and wise' Johann Hari, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Stolen Focus Everyone... -
The Linguistics Wars: Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure by Randy Allen Harris
RRP: $51.44$48.01An updated and expanded history of the field of linguistics from the 1950s to the current day The Linguistics Wars tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current... -
The Most Common Chinese Radicals - New Approaches to Learning Chinese by Zhang Pengpeng 9787800525766
RRP: $20.50$20.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9787800525766Author Zhang PengpengFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint SinolinguaPublisher SinolinguaWeight(grams) 340g -
Introducing Chomsky: A Graphic Guide by John Maher
RRP: $15.42$6.93Can it be that the human brain possesses an in-built faculty for language? Noam Chomsky, one of the most brilliant linguists of the 20th century, believes that it does- that there exists a 'universal grammar' common to all languages. Around the world... -
Nature Connection: A handbook for therapy and self-exploration by Margaret Kerr 9781913743123
$21.54This compact handbook of nature practices can be used by anyone who wants to deepen their connection with the rest of nature. It is also designed to be used by people who work with others in personal development and healing - for example, coaches,... -
Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing by Melissa Mohr 9780190491680
$25.20Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene. Whether they express anger or exhilaration, are meant to...