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You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.75'Telling and compelling' Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect 'Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book' David Crystal, author of How Language Works 'Intriguing and engaging'... -
Language, Truth and Logic A.J. Ayer 9780141186047
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct... -
Image Music Text by Roland Barthes 9780006861355
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's... -
The Construction of Social Reality by John R. Searle
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a "five-pound note" with all that implies in terms of value and social... -
The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.36'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat... -
Speaking and Being: How Language Shapes Our Lives by Kubra Gumusay
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I can't stop talking about this book' Jamie Klingler, co-founder #ReclaimTheseStreets 'What a gem. ... Makes you look at the world, and yourself, afresh.' Minna... -
A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.20'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are... -
Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization by John Searle
RRP: $16.11Booksplease Price: $12.62The renowned philosopher John Searle reveals the fundamental nature of social reality. What kinds of things are money, property, governments, nations, marriages, cocktail parties, and football games?... -
Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett by Terry Pratchett
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.18'I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.'The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchett's unique brand of... -
How Language Works by David Crystal
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $13.56In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his... -
Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored by Jeffrey Boakye
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $10.31AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK.These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of twenty-first century Black... -
Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo 9780008498696
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.36'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... -
Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative Isabella Hammad 9781911717379
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women's Prize for Fiction-shortlisted author of Enter Ghost'Combines intellectual brilliance with moral... -
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor 9780674660205
RRP: $38.64Booksplease Price: $30.77In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth... -
Endangered Languages Evangelia Adamou 9780262548700
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $15.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262548700Author Evangelia AdamouFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint
Enough Said: What's gone wrong with the language of politics? by Mark Thompson 9780099597681
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State have in common...
Language and Reality by Vilem Flusser
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25In Language and Reality, originally published in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1964, Vilem Flusser continues his philosophical and theoretical exploration into language. He begins to postulate that language...
The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages? by Deborah Cameron
RRP: $17.40Booksplease Price: $12.22Popular assumptions about gender and communication - famously summed up in the title of the massively influential 1992 bestseller Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus - can have unforeseen but...
Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 9781421419954
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $30.84Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of...
One and Everything Sam Winston 9781529509298
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $13.55From Sam Winston, the co-creator of the Bologna Ragazzi award-winning A Child of Books, comes a thought-provoking celebration of the power of stories and written languages, and the imperative to...
The Secrets of Words by Noam Chomsky
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046718Author Noam ChomskyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint
Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar & Rhetoric by Sister Miriam Joseph 9780967967509
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967967509Author Sister Miriam JosephFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Im
For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache 9780190665067
RRP: $22.56Booksplease Price: $17.87Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. ...
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J. R. R. Tolkien
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.68First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. ...
I, Me, Mine: Back to Kant, and Back Again by Beatrice Longuenesse 9780198822721
RRP: $38.04Booksplease Price: $34.82Beatrice Longuenesse presents an original exploration of our understanding of ourselves and the way we talk about ourselves. In the first part of the book she discusses contemporary analyses of our...
Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376639Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint <
Naming and Necessity Saul A. Kripke 9780631128014
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $26.28Naming and Necessity has had a great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these...
The Philosophy of Rhetoric by I. A. Richards 9780195007152
Booksplease Price: $30.56In this in-depth work, Richards defines rhetoric as the study of misunderstanding and its remedies. Focusing on how words work in discourse, he examines the interaction of words with each other and...
Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $7.77John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception,...
Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin by Jacques Derrida 9780804732895
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.52"I have but one language-yet that language is not mine." This book intertwines theoretical reflection with historical and cultural particularity to enunciate, then analyze this conundrum in terms of...
The Art of Resilience: The Lessons of Aeneas by Andrea Marcolongo
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Lucid, compelling, enlightening "Marcolongo is today's Montaigne."-Andre Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name "Shows how languages gives us new ways of seeing and understanding the world."-The...
The Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.15Japanese 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...
Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $11.95'Full of charm and fascination' The Bookseller'Would dazzle any storyteller in love with words and their deepest meanings' Amy Tan, author of Joy Luck Club'A generous book and a beguiling read'...
The Rediscovery of Meaning, and Other Essays by Owen Barfield 9780956942333
Booksplease Price: $23.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956942333Author Owen BarfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint
Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence by Trevor Cox
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained' The TimesWhy are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?If you've ever felt...
How Propaganda Works by Jason Stanley
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $17.38Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so,...
What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky 9780231175968
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $22.56Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist...
Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics by Chris Knight
Booksplease Price: $22.79A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar...
The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality by Joseph Raz
Booksplease Price: $65.31This classic collection of essays, first published in 1979, has had an enduring influence on philosophical work on the nature of law and its relation to morality. Raz begins by presenting an analysis...