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The Rhetorical Function of the Book of Ezekiel
In this study, Thomas Renz argues that the book of Ezekiel functions as a rhetorical unit, that it addresses a specific rhetorical situation, and that it aims at shaping the...
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age
'A tour de force' Alice Roberts'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin DunbarThe relationship between language, thought and culture...
How Languages Work: An Introduction to Language and Linguistics
Language is a sophisticated tool which we use to communicate in a multitude of ways. Updated and expanded in its second edition, this book introduces language and linguistics - presenting...
The Message: Remix - The Bible in Contemporary Language
It's Gods Word - the Truth - in a user-friendly form for students. God's Word was meant to be read and understood. It was first written in the language of...
An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of
A global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, and the stories and cultures they carry with them. If something is important, we write...
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking
'Alex Bellos is a wizard.' - Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist The Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that...
Jesus, Contradicted: Why the Gospels Tell the Same Story Differently
The differences and discrepancies in the Gospels constitute the foremost objections to their reliability and the credibility of their message. Some have tried to resolve Gospels contradictions with strained harmonization...
The Routes of English
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The book titled The Routes of English by the author Simon Elmes. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language
It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk? What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth,...
The Owl and the Nightingale
Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry In this 'graceful, elegant translation' (Guardian), Poet Laureate Simon Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the Middle English tale with all...
Breaking the Maya Code
The book titled Breaking the Maya Code by the author Michael D. Coe. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young...
Word Origins ... And How We Know Them: Etymology for Everyone
"Millions of people want to know the origin of the words they use. Word columns in daily newspapers and numerous books attempt to satisfy their curiosity. Word histories are usually...
Australia in 100 Words
**Shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2025, Australian history** Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker. There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia from iconic...
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: The Ideal Guide to Sounding, Acting and
Vocabulary alone isn't enough. To survive in the most sophisticated - and the most scathing - nation on Earth you will need to understand the many peculiarities of the (very...
The Story of Writing
People can be interested in language, writing and scripts. They may wonder how, when and where did writing evolve? Do alphabets function better than hieroglyphs? And are we today, in...
The Language of Lies: How to uncover the liar in your life
An expert in forensic linguistics will teach you how to tell if someone is lying to you by analysing the language they're using. How can you tell if someone is...
The Emergence of Standard English
Language scholars have traditionally agreed that the development of the English language was largely unplanned. John H. Fisher challenges this view, demonstrating that the standardization of writing and pronunciation was,...
The Infinite Alphabet: And the Laws of Knowledge
A world-leading scholar reveals how knowledge moves, grows, and drives progress We all understand that knowledge shapes the fate of business and the growth of nations, but few of us...
The New Well-Tempered Sentence: A Punctuation Handbook for the
For over a decade THE WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE has provided instruction and pleasure to the wariest student and the most punctilious scholar alike. Now Karen Elizabeth Gordon has revised and...
Cliches and Coinages
This criss-cross study, the first of its kind, arranges a shotgun wedding between cliches and coinages - the old (that refuses to die), and new (that often quickly fades). Not...
The City in Slang
Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang...
Indefinites and the Type of Sets
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Indefinites and the Type of Sets explores a new theory of indefinite noun phrase interpretation and definiteness effects. The book begins by introducing an adjectival theory of noun phrase interpretation...
The Curzon Gospel: Volume I: An Annotated Edition; Volume II: A
This pioneering work introduces and presents the first full publication of the text of an unusual fourteenth-century Bulgarian gospel manuscript known as the Curzon Gospel. Volume I is an annotated...
Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages
Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In...
Introducing Linguistics: A Graphic Guide
More than anything else, language is what makes us human. Linguistics, the discipline which studies the structure, function, and phenomena of lanuage, has uncovered many surprising and fascinating things about...
Feminist Critique of Language: second edition
Why has language been such a central issue in 20th-century feminist politics? This work serves as both a guide to the major debates and directions in current feminist thinking about...
Enough is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell
A brief and humorous 500-year history of the Simplified Spelling Movement from advocates like Ben Franklin, C. S. Lewis, and Mark Twain to texts and Twitter. Why does the G...
BRITSLANG
Slang is an integral part of the English language and has been so for the best part of 200 years. The most popular belief is that it began as a...
Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of
Why don't eleven and twelve end in -teen? The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rulebreakers seem so at...
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
Frank Kermode is one of our most distinguished critics of English literature. Here, he contributes a new epilogue to his collection of classic lectures on the relationship of fiction to...
Complete Works of Josephus
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public...
Slang Down the Ages
Coined in the spontaneity of the everyday spoken act, slang exists as a testament to human nature's inventive and subversive instinct. This history of English slang documents our verbal predilections...
If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation
Why might Hamlet be even longer in Italian? How does the story of Romeo and Juliet begin . . . in Thai? How do you build a joke in German,...
The Last Lingua Franca: The Rise and Fall of World Languages
A startling new thesis that predicts the end of English as a global language In the twenty-first century, can we really take the dominance of English for granted? In their...
Dictionary of Modern Phrases
The book titled Dictionary of Modern Phrases by the author Graeme Donald. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Stellar English: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Grammar and Style
An indispensable guide to essential principles of English grammar and usage. Stellar English lays out the fundamentals of effective writing, from word choice and punctuation to parts of speech and...
Writing Mysteries: A Handbook by the Mystery Writers of America
"Across the darkened basement something creaked, and I tightened my grip on the Colt Diamondback. I'm not usually timid, but my palm was sweaty. That worried me; if I had...
Roget a to Z
For those who prefer a thesaurus in dictionary form, this bestseller (more than 50,000 hardcover copies sold) is the ideal choice.
That's The Way It Crumbles: The American Conquest of the English
Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms...
What the Dickens?!: Distinctly Dickensian Words and How to Use Them
GRAB A BUMPER, FORGET YOUR FANTEEGS, AND ROAM AT A FOOT-PACE THROUGH THE TWISTY ALLEYWAYS OF THE VICTORIAN VERNACULAR!What larks! Dive into the world of literature's ultimate wordsmith, Charles Dickens,...
The Owl and the Nightingale
SHORTLISTED FOR THE DEREK WALCOTT PRIZE FOR POETRY 'It is the current Poet Laureate who has done the most to bring medieval poetry to contemporary audiences . . . in...
Aitchison's Linguistics: A practical introduction to contemporary
This classic book is a straightforward introduction to linguistics which attempts to answer two fundamental questions: 'What is language?' and 'How does language work?' It outlines the scope of linguistics,...
The Wordsworth Companion to English Literature
This comprehensive guide to literature in English is a source to the vast heritage of literature in the English language throughout the world. It ranges from Britain and Ireland to...
The Story of English: How the English language conquered the world
Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 11th century, and finally emerging...
Talk: The Science of Conversation
We spend much of our days talking. Yet we know little about the conversational engine that drives our everyday lives. We are pushed and pulled around by language far more...
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions: Nuances, Niceties and Subtle Shades
'Delightful' Steven Pinker 'A joy to read' David Crystal Swamp or bog? Guilt or shame? Poisonous or venomous? We pick from a wealth of words to express ourselves each day,...
Language City: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century and - because many have never been recorded - when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin,...