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A wholly 20th-century "Brewer's", exploring the cultural, political, scientific, linguistic and social landscape of the modern age. From 1900 onwards this volume records the words, phrases, slogans and quotations that...

In the last few years, there has been a major and unmissable surge in women's retellings and re-creations of ancient myths and texts that has put women's re-creations of Classics...

In the last few years, there has been a major and unmissable surge in women's retellings and re-creations of ancient myths and texts that has put women's re-creations of Classics...

From Madeline Miller's The Song of Achilles (2011) to Pat Barker's The Voyage Home (2024), there has been a huge rise in women's rewritings of ancient myths and texts in...

Many cyberattacks begin with a lure: a seemingly innocent message designed to establish trust with a target to obtain sensitive information or compromise a computer system. The perils of clicking...

A handy, affordable Ukrainian to English and English to Ukrainian dictionary for everyday use, including a guide to common everyday expressions in both languages. , - , - . This...

The Language Game overturns established thought, showing how our language derives from the chaos of improvisation rather than from a built-in grammar or language instinct Drawing on wonderfully entertaining and...

The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading. In this insightful and moving book, Kevin Harvey affirms the importance that language and literature can...

Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a...

Outlining the core methodological and theoretical premises, this book presents the essential approaches that you need to know when doing discourse analysis for the first time. Chapters cover discourse and...

Maurice O'Connor Drury was among Wittgenstein's first students after his return to Cambridge in 1929. The subsequent course of Drury's life and thought was to be enormously influenced by his...

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique human...

An obsessive word loveras account of reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover. aIam reading the OED so you donat have to. If you are interested in vocabulary that...

We all use euphemisms every day - `nice' expressions that shield us from the offensive or frightening things they describe. Euphemisms have existed throughout recorded history; they are used even...

From a go-go to zonked, this is an A to Z of the words which have entered the English language since 1960. With over 2000 entries and 4000 definitions, this...

'Wonderfully spirited' DAILY MAIL The follow-up to the Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller Lost for Words , from Today presenter and national treasure John Humphrys. From the huge response to...

The Macquarie Budget Dictionary provides up-to-date coverage of essential, everyday words used in Australian English. Compiled for the general dictionary user, it is an ideal reference dictionary for home, school...

Unravel the meaning, origin, and usage of over 6,000 phrases from book and film titles, idioms and cliches, to nicknames, slogans and quotations with this modern and entertaining guide to...

'The Arctic' in Don Paterson's powerful new collection is the name of a bar frequented by the survivors of several kinds of apocalypse. The poems gathered here are as various...

The World of Athens is a serious, up-to-date account of the history and culture of fifth century Athens for adults, university students and sixth-formers with an intelligent interest in ancient...

Can it really be true that 'golf' stands for 'Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden'? Or that 'rule of thumb' comes from an archaic legal principle that a man may chastise his...

This is the first edition of the bestselling Collins English-Japanese Gem Dictionary, which covers all the words and phrases learners will need to know. This dictionary provides the best coverage...

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming...

This comprehensive introduction to intercultural pragmatics examines the theoretical, methodological and practical issues in the analysis of talk across cultures. The book includes: * introduction to the key issues in...

The Literary Lifeline is a tribute to the transporting and consoling power of reading. In this insightful and moving book, Kevin Harvey affirms the importance that language and literature can...

The Renaissance is one of the most studied and celebrated eras of history. Spanning the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of modernity, it has come to symbolise...

This text provides a general survey of and introduction to the range of work in lexical linguistics and corpora - the study of such on-line resources as dictionaries and other...

Sebastiano Timpanaro (1923-2000) was one of the most original leftist thinkers of the 20th century. His thought spans a unique range of subjects, from materialism to classical philology, from the...

FROM THE INVENTOR OF 'THE LEAGUE OF THE LEXICON' BOARDGAME - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL WHO LOVE WORDS AND LANGUAGE. 'A word-lover's dream' Stephen Fry 'The book is delightful...

As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms like these are used in everyday English...

The trusted paperback English dictionary and thesaurus for everyday use. The perfect word reference to broaden your knowledge of English, ideal for everyday use, at home, in the office or...

The book titled The Wordsworth Thesaurus of Slang by the author Esther Lewin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This two-in-one dictionary and grammar contains 80,000 references and 115,000 translations. It aims to help the user understand the language of the French media and contemporary literature and includes business...

Schott is back - and better than ever! From the mind that created the million-copy selling Schott's Original Miscellany comes Schott's Significa: an indispensable field guide to the hidden lore...

The book titled Hugo: Paperback Dictionary Turkish by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Every single one of the letters you're reading right now can tell a fascinating story, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and social journey to reach this very...

Features all the essential, day-to-day words and phrases, plus vocabulary for making conversation, understanding festivals and local dates, and sightseeing. Comprehensive pronunciation and grammar chapters are included. The book has...

'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,...

Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples.

Simply by making noises with our mouths, we can reliably cause precise new combinations of ideas to arise in each other's minds. The ability comes so naturally that we are...

It is widely accepted that English is the first truly global language and lingua franca. Its dominance has even led to its use and adaptation by local communities for their...

The book titled New English Dictionary for Speakers of Arabic by the author Nazih Kassis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

What is going on in English studies? Bernard Bergonzi, a literary critic and teacher, who has also published poetry and fiction and has been involved in university administration, seeks to...

The book titled Russian by the author Berlitz Guides. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In this fascinating, mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing account of the origins of language ever published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we...

This work looks at the theories of Noam Chomsky, which went beyond the world of linguistics, making claims about the relationship between the language and the mind.

For word lovers everywhere, "The Guilded Tongue" is a treasure trove of esoteric synonyms for everyday words. This innovative book: provides definitions, etymologies, pronunciations and illustrative sentences for 500 weird...