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Don't Believe A Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari 9781474608459
RRP: $12.89$8.77'Wonderful. You finish the book more alive than ever to the enduring mystery and miracle of that thing that makes us most human' STEPHEN FRY'Most popular books on language dumb down; Shariatmadari's smartens things up, and is all the more entertaining... -
Modern Toss: Tossary of Terms by Jon Link
RRP: $7.73$6.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992910778Author Jon LinkFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Modern Toss LimitedPublisher Modern Toss LimitedWeight(grams) 196g -
Demographic Methods and Concepts by Donald T. Rowland 9780198752639
RRP: $82.55$78.19Demographic Methods and Concepts presents the methods most commonly needed to work with statistical materials on population at national, regional and local levels. Unlike other textbooks in the field, clear non-technical language is used throughout to... -
Critical Discourse Analysis: The Critical Study of Language by Norman Fairclough 9781405858229
$50.23Bringing together papers written by Norman Fairclough over a 25 year period, Critical Discourse Analysis represents a comprehensive and important contribution to the development of this popular field. The book is divided into seven sections covering the... -
Indo-European Linguistics: An Introduction by James Clackson
RRP: $45.14$39.64The Indo-European language family consists of many of the modern and ancient languages of Europe, India and Central Asia, including Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. Spoken by an estimated three billion people, it has... -
Complete Bengali Beginner to Intermediate Course: (Book and audio support) by William Radice
RRP: $58.04$38.25Are you looking for a complete course in Bengali which takes you effortlessly from beginner to confident speaker? Whether you are starting from scratch, or are just out of practice, Complete Bengali will guarantee success!Now fully updated to make your... -
Categories We Live By: How We Classify Everyone and Everything by Gregory L. Murphy 9780262547031
RRP: $49.02$34.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547031Author Gregory L. MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *... -
Grettir's Saga by Jesse L. Byock
RRP: $14.18$10.28'You will be made an outlaw, forced always to live in the wilds and to live alone.' A sweeping epic of the Viking Age, Grettir's Saga follows the life of the outlaw Grettir the Strong as he battles against sorcery, bad luck, and the vengefulness of... -
In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent
RRP: $19.34$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812980899Author Arika OkrentFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: $14.18$10.02Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary... -
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing by Martin Gardner
RRP: $7.73$5.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486247618Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Complete Latin Beginner to Intermediate Book and Audio Course: Learn to read, write, speak and understand a new language with Teach Yourself by Gavin Betts
RRP: $51.59$34.25Complete Latin is a comprehensive book and audio course that takes you from beginner to advanced level.This new edition contains for the first time key Latin texts on audio to give you extra depth and context and to bring the Classical World to life... -
Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quamtum Cryptography by Dr. Simon Singh
RRP: $24.51$14.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385495325Author Simon SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)... -
Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications by Jeremy Munday
RRP: $49.01$43.06Introducing Translation Studies remains the definitive guide to the theories and concepts that make up the field of translation studies. Providing an accessible and up-to-date overview, it has long been the essential textbook on courses worldwide. This... -
From Perception to Communication: A Theory of Types for Action and Meaning by Robin Cooper
RRP: $129.00$116.75This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. This book characterizes... -
An Introduction to Middle English by Jeremy Smith
RRP: $25.79$21.18An Introduction to Middle English is designed to provide undergraduate students of English historical linguistics with a concise description of the language during the period 1100-1500. Middle English, the language of Chaucer, is discussed in relation to... -
Symposium by Plato 9780199540198
RRP: $12.89$9.17In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of love... -
Essential Hindi Dictionary: Teach Yourself by Rupert Snell
RRP: $25.79$17.22Is this the right book for me?With over 14,000 translations, including everyday idioms and expressions, Essential Hindi Dictionary is the perfect tool to support your learning of Hindi. This updated edition includes a guide to usage and insights from... -
The Languages of Logic: An Introduction to Formal Logic by Samuel Guttenplan
RRP: $42.51$38.11With the same intellectual goals as the first edition, this innovative introductory logic textbook explores the relationship between natural language and logic, motivating the student to acquire skills and techniques of formal logic. This new and revised... -
Languages: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Anderson 9780199590599
RRP: $11.60$8.32How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being discovered? Why are so many languages disappearing? The diversity of languages today is varied, but it is steadily declining. In this Very... -
The Oxford Dictionary of Usage and Style by Bryan A. Garner 9780195135084
RRP: $23.21$22.45What's the singular of paparazzi? Is graffiti singular or plural? What about kudos? Should I say empathic or empathetic? Is it a couple of dozen or a couple dozen? What's the correct pronunciation of concierge? Or schism? Or flaccid?In this book of... -
Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect by Denise Riley 9780822335122
RRP: $28.37$24.24Denise Riley is renowned as a feminist theorist and a poet and for her remarkable refiguring of familiar but intransigent problems of identity, expression, language, and politics. In Impersonal Passion, she turns to everyday complex emotional and... -
How to Get Really Good at Portuguese: Learn Portuguese to Fluency and Beyond by Language Learning Polyglot 9781950321100
RRP: $10.31$7.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950321100Author Language Learning PolyglotFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Language Mastery PublishingPublisher Language Mastery... -
Language Teacher Identity by Silvia Melo Pfeifer 9781394154531
RRP: $41.27$40.13The first volume to focus on race, ethnicity, and accent as elements of language teacher identity, a valuable guide for in-service teachers and teachers-in-training Language Teacher Identity presents a groundbreaking critical examination of how... -
Life, Letters, and Poetry by Michelangelo 9780199537365
RRP: $14.18$10.02The poems have been rendered into vigorous contemporary English. A selection of Michelangelo's letters, many of the to important contemporaries such as Vasari and Duke Cosimo, is accompanied by the `Life' of the great artist written by his pupil Ascanio... -
A Land of Liberty?: England 1689-1727 by Julian Hoppit 9780199251001
$63.76The Glorious Revolution was a decisive moment in England's history; an invading Dutch army forced James II to flee to France, and his son-in-law and daughter, William and Mary, were crowned as joint sovereigns. The wider consequences were no less... -
Barricades and Borders: Europe 1800-1914 by Robert Gildea
RRP: $51.59$49.08This is a comprehensive survey of European history from the coup d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo, which led to the First World War. It concentrates on the twin themes of revolution and... -
Complete Hungarian: Learn to read, write, speak and understand Hungarian by Zsuzsanna Pontifex
RRP: $51.59$34.25Complete Hungarian is a comprehensive book and audio language course that takes you from beginner to intermediate level.The new edition of this successful course has been fully revised and is packed with new learning features to give you the language,... -
English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States by Rosina Lippi-Green
RRP: $51.59$45.23Since its original publication in 1997, English with an Accent has inspired generations of scholars to investigate linguistic discrimination, social categorization, social structures, and power. This new edition is an attempt to retain the spirit of the... -
Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research by Norman Fairclough 9780415258937
RRP: $51.59$45.23Analysing Discourse is an accessible introductory textbook for all students and researchers working with real language data.Drawing on a range of social theorists from Bourdieu to Habermas, as well as his own research, Norman Fairclough's book presents a... -
Language and Power by Norman Fairclough 9781138790971
RRP: $61.91$53.93Language and Power is widely recognised both as a classic and an essential introductory textbook to the field of Critical Discourse Analysis. It focusses on how language functions in maintaining and changing power relations in modern society, the ways of... -
John Henry Newman: A Biography by Ian Ker
RRP: $16.11$15.57This full-length life of John Henry Newman is the first comprehensive biography of both the man and the thinker and writer. It draws extensively on material from Newman's letters and papers. Newman's character is revealed in its complexity and contrasts:... -
'I mBeal an Bhais': The Great Famine and the Language Shift in Nineteenth-Century Ireland by Gearoid O Tuathaigh 9780990468677
RRP: $12.84$10.51Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845-1852 - the worst demographic... -
Complete Korean Beginner to Intermediate Course: (Book and audio support) by Mark Vincent
RRP: $51.59$34.25Do you want to develop a solid understanding of Korean and communicate confidently with others?Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and review, Complete Korean will equip you with the skills... -
The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies by Stuart Webb
RRP: $56.75$49.59The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of... -
The Chambers Paperback Dictionary by Chambers
RRP: $12.89$8.77Containing thousands of clear definitions, The Chambers Paperback Dictionary is the ideal easy-to-use guide to finding the right word and spelling every time.Clearly structured word entries include information on pronunciation, related terms and... -
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang by John Ayto 9780199232055
RRP: $15.47$10.87Drawing on the unique resources of the Oxford English Dictionary and offering coverage of over 6,000 slang words and expressions from the Cockney 'abaht' to the American term 'zowie', this is the most authoritative dictionary of slang from the 20th and... -
Introducing Functional Grammar by Geoff Thompson 9781444152678
RRP: $49.01$44.27Introducing Functional Grammar, third edition, provides a user-friendly overview of the theoretical and practical aspects of the systemic functional grammar (SFG) model.No prior knowledge of formal linguistics is required as the book provides: An... -
Metadiscourse by Ken Hyland
RRP: $33.53$29.17First 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... -
Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary: A Guide for Research by Pawel Szudarski
RRP: $47.72$41.96Corpus Linguistics for Vocabulary provides a practical introduction to using corpus linguistics in vocabulary studies. Using freely available corpus tools, the author provides a step-by-step guide on how corpora can be used to explore key...