Language: History & General Works
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Wenglish - The Dialect of the South Wales Valleys
Roger LewisCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Current price €16.10Original price €18.50Save 13% -
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us
James W. PennebakerCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
English in the World: History, Diversity, Change
Mark SandersCurrent price €43.49Original price €49.99English in the World: History, Diversity, Change examines the English language as it has developed through history and is used across the globe tod...
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How to be Good With Words
Don LePanCurrent price €20.87Original price €23.99In recent decades the contested areas of English usage have grown both larger and more numerous. We may argue rather less frequently than was once ...
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The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics
John PollackCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99Current price €17.39Original price €19.99Save 13% -
Mark Forsyth''s Ternion Set: A beautiful box set containing The Etymologicon, The Horologicon and The Elements of Eloquence in hardback
Mark ForsythCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99'Kudos should go to Mr Forsyth ... Clearly a man who knows his onions.' Daily Telegraph'Forsyth takes words and draws us into their, and our murky ...
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The Slang Dictionary - Etymological, Historical and Anecdotal - A New Edition - Revised and Corrected, With Many Additions.
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The Yield
Tara June WinchCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2020 An exquisitely written, heartbreaking and hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, sufferin...
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The Yield
Tara June WinchCurrent price €13.59Original price €16.99WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2020 An exquisitely written, heartbreaking and hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, sufferi...
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The Yield
Tara June WinchCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50WINNER OF THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2020 An exquisitely written, heartbreaking and hopeful novel of culture, language, tradition, sufferi...
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Journal of Maltese Studies 28 - Essays on the Cantilena
Bernard Micallef€15.00For decades now, the Cantilena has inspired an unending exchange of critical, historical, linguistic and other scholarly views. This issue of the J...
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Let''s Talk: How English Conversation Works
David CrystalCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50Banter, chit-chat, gossip, natter, tete-a-tete: these are just a few of the terms for the varied ways in which we interact with one another through...
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Categories, Constructions, and Change in English Syntax
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €104.39Original price €119.99A pioneering collection of new research that explores categories, constructions, and change in the syntax of the English language. The volume, with...
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Language Error and Applied Linguistics
Ali AKbar KhansirCurrent price €137.27Original price €167.40Current price €137.27Original price €167.40Save 18% -
Spoken Corpus Linguistics: From Monomodal to Multimodal
Koros Press LimitedCurrent price €137.27Original price €167.40Current price €137.27Original price €167.40Save 18% -
Soldier and Sailor Words and Phrases
Edward FraserCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99This book was first published in 1925 and was intended to be a dictionary of first world war slang. In the 1920s, the war to end all wars was still...
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Book of New Zealand Words
Dianne BardsleyCurrent price €38.27Original price €43.99Elegant, erudite and utterly up to date, this book contains more than 1500 unique New Zealand words and expressions. From afakasi to zespri, the Bo...
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Around the World in 80 Words: A Journey Through the English Language
Paul Anthony JonesCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99From Monte Carlo to Shanghai, Bikini to Samarra, Around the World in 80 Words is a whimsical voyage through the far-flung reaches of the English la...
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The Story of Be: A Verb''s-Eye View of the English Language
David CrystalCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50It's the most simple, unassuming, innocent-looking verb: 'to be'. Yet it is jam-packed with more different meanings, forms, and uses than any other...
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The Singlish Controversy: Language, Culture and Identity in a Globalizing World
Lionel WeeCurrent price €93.95Original price €107.99Singlish is the colloquial variety of English spoken in Singapore. It has sparked much public debate, but so far the complex question of what Singl...
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The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699
B. E. GentCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99Written originally for the education of the polite London classes in canting the language of thieves and ruffians should they be so unlucky as to...
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Journal of Maltese Studies 29 - Giovan Francesco Buonamico (1639-1680)
Arnold Cassola€15.00This monographic issue of the Journal of Maltese Studies is dedicated to Giovanni Francesco Buonamico, the Maltese seventeenth-century intellectual...
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The Studies on the Hebrew Language / brani Dili Üzerine Aratrmalar
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €45.23Original price €51.99This book is a selection of the papers presented at the International Symposium on the History of the Hebrew Language on 1617 October 2012. The sel...
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Soldier Slang of the First World War
Emily BrewerCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99An amazing number of the words we use today were invented in the First World War. They provide a unique insight into the experience of the war and ...
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Eatymologies: Historical Notes on Culinary Terms
William SayersCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50Current price €28.28Original price €32.50Save 13% -
A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: Words We Pinched From Other Languages
Chloe RhodesCurrent price €10.43Original price €11.99A handy guide to the meanings and origins of the many foreign phrases we use every day.English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings...
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Hook Your Audience: Anecdotes, Quips and Quotations for Business Speakers
Patrick ForsythCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99Current price €13.91Original price €15.99Save 13% -
Illustrated Etymologies: Plants and Animals
Christopher MulveyCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99Current price €13.91Original price €15.99Save 13% -
The Dawning Moon of the Mind
Susan Brind MorrowCurrent price €19.27Original price €23.50Buried in the Egyptian desert some 4,000 years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world''s oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these h...
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Language Policy and Planning in the Mediterranean World
Cambridge Scholars PublishingCurrent price €48.71Original price €55.99Language Policy and Planning in the Mediterranean World is a collection of the best papers presented at the MedLPLP conference held at the Universi...
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Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction
Lynda MugglestoneCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99Do, or should, dictionaries control language? How do they treat language change, both now and in the past? Which words do dictionaries leave out - ...
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