Language: History & General Works
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Bad Words: And What They Say About Us
Philip GoodenCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To b...
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Maltese and other languages
Joseph M. Brincat€50.00Second revised edition of this important publication about the origins and history of the Maltese language. (Maltese Social Studies Series No. 19)
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The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Mark ForsythCurrent price €13.00Original price €15.99FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON. 'An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of ...
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Mother Tongue: The surprising history of women''s words -''Fascinating, intriguing, witty, a gem of a book'' (Kate Mosse)
Jenni NuttallCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.'Fascinating, intrigui...
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In Other Words
Jhumpa LahiriCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99_______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A wr...
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The Happiness Dictionary: Words from Around the World to Help Us Lead a Richer Life
Dr Tim LomasCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50'A delightful compendium' - Evening StandardHave you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe, because no English word exists for it?Ind...
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A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions
Walter E. AufrechtCurrent price €104.39Original price €119.99This second edition of A Corpus of Ammonite Inscriptions presents all of the published inscriptions that have been identified as Ammonite in one vo...
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Dizzjunarju Bibliku
Charles Tonna O.P.€10.00Dan id-dizzjunarju bibliku jiġbor fih madwar mitejn tema importanti fl-istudju tal-Bibbja, b’informazzjoni siewja u preżentazzjoni ċara li jista’ j...
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Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English
Solveig BosseCurrent price €73.94Original price €84.99Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and E...
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Is English Changing?
Steve KleinedlerCurrent price €27.83Original price €31.99Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? provides a livel...
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Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language aims to bring to light L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment in relation to English ...
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Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined Our Language
Bryan A. GarnerCurrent price €46.01Original price €58.99A delightBooklistA richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing ...
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The Happiness Dictionary: Words from Around the World to Help Us Lead a Richer Life
Dr Tim LomasCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99'A delightful compendium' - Evening StandardHave you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe, because no English word exists for it?Ind...
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Marivaudage: théories et pratiques dun discours
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99Le terme marivaudage, qui évoque encore aujourdhui un excès de langage et une virtuosité superficielle, limite la portée dun uvre dont lambition ét...
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Abreviations, Bibliography, Conclusions and Corpus
Stuart PressCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Current price €15.23Original price €17.50Save 13% -
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
Judith FlandersCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . ....
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Essentials of Early English: An Introduction to Old, Middle, and Early Modern English
Jeremy J. SmithCurrent price €116.57Original price €133.99A practical, accessible textbook for undergraduate students with no background in linguistics. Incorporates a range of pedagogical features such a...
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The History of English: An Introduction
Stephan GramleyCurrent price €40.01Original price €45.99The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English langua...
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The Indo-European Languages
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €316.67Original price €363.99The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family.With ove...
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Language as Information: Proceedings from the CALS Conference 2012
Peter Lang AGCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99This volume contains twelve papers presented at the 26th International Conference of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society, which was held at th...
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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Manchán MaganCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99Rediscover the lost words of an ancient land in this new and updated edition of an international bestseller.Most people associate Britain and Irela...
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Words from Hell: Unearthing the Darkest Secrets of English Etymology
Jess ZafarrisCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99The English language is where words go to be tortured and mutilated into unrecognizable shadows of their former selves. It's where Latin, Greek, an...
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Literature, Learning, and Social Hierarchy in Early Modern Europe
Oxford University PressCurrent price €77.42Original price €88.99The literature and literate knowledge that were produced in Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries emanated from societies that wer...
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