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You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.21'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23If 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... -
Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics by Susana Nuccetelli 9780742559776
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23This 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.81'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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.71A 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... -
Simulating the Evolution of Language by Angelo Cangelosi 9781852334284
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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'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: £12.49Booksplease Price: £9.78The 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.67'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.51In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.99AFRO-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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.58'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... -
Haunted Experience: Being, Loss, Memory by Julian Wolfreys 9781911193029
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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by P. H. Matthews 9780192801487
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Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative Isabella Hammad 9781911717379
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49An 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: £29.95Booksplease Price: £23.85In 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... -
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction by A. C. Grayling
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make... -
Every Word Has Power: Switch on Your Language and Turn on Your Life by Yvonne Oswald 9781582701813
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Endangered Languages Evangelia Adamou 9780262548700
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75Apologies 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.54LONGLISTED 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: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47In 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...
Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought by Noam Chomsky 9780521708173
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.67Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages? by Deborah Cameron
RRP: £13.49Booksplease Price: £9.47Popular 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: £31.00Booksplease Price: £23.91Jacques 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50From 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 Mythology in Our Language - Remarks on Frazer`s Golden Bough Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780990505068
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.30In 1931 Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote his famous Remarks on Frazer's "Golden Bough," published posthumously in 1967. At that time, anthropology and philosophy were in close contact - continental thinkers...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9789176372012
Booksplease Price: £6.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789176372012Author Ludwig WittgensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Impri
The Secrets of Words by Noam Chomsky
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38Apologies 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.53Apologies 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: £17.49Booksplease Price: £13.85Why 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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.28First 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: £29.49Booksplease Price: £26.99Beatrice 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...
Naming and Necessity Saul A. Kripke 9780631128014
RRP: £21.95Booksplease Price: £20.37Naming 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: £23.69In 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: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.02John 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,...
Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism by Huw Price 9780521279062
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
Monolingualism of the Other: or, The Prosthesis of Origin by Jacques Derrida 9780804732895
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46"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: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Lucid, 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...