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
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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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Do You Speak Football?: A Glossary of Football Words and Phrases from Around the World
Tom WilliamsCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50'At last, the definitive guide to football phraseology across the world... Sparky and very funny' Paul Hayward 'Amusing and informative in equal ...
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Icons of the Alphabet: Letter Names, Phonetic Notation and the Phonology and Orthography of English
Reese M. HeitnerCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99This book examines the names by which we refer to the letters of the English alphabet, arguing that these letter names provide unrivalled insights ...
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Describing Prescriptivism: Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English
Ingrid Tieken-Boon van OstadeCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99Describing Prescriptivism provides a topical and thought-provoking analysis of linguistic prescriptivism in British and American English, from a hi...
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StarWords: The Celestial Roots of Modern Language
Daniel KunthCurrent price €24.80Original price €28.50Unbeknownst to many, our modern language contains countless words that were inspired by human observations of the cosmos. We now use words like zen...
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The Meaning of Liff: The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For
Douglas AdamsCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50The Meaning of Liff has sold hundreds of thousands of copies since it was first published in 1983, and remains a much-loved humour classic. This ed...
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The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary
Christopher NolanCurrent price €28.28Original price €32.50**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'Enthralling and exuberant ... Here is a wonder-book for word-lovers' Jeanette WintersonA l...
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American Linguistics in Transition: From Post-Bloomfieldian Structuralism to Generative Grammar
Frederick J. NewmeyerCurrent price €97.43Original price €111.99This volume is devoted to a major chapter in the history of linguistics in the United States, the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, and focuses p...
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Analyzing the Korean Alphabet: The Science of Hangul
Hye K. PaeCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99This book provides comprehensive coverage of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, and includes a synthesis of research findings relating to reading in the ...
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Political Community in Minority Language Writing: Claiming Difference, Seeking Commonality
Patrick CarlinCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99This book offers case studies and a comparative analysis of three authors writing in different European minority languages, exploring how they link...
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French Lessons in Late-Medieval England: The Liber Donati and Commune Parlance
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Language, Literature and the Construction of a Dutch National Identity (1780-1830)
Amsterdam University PressCurrent price €123.53Original price €141.99In exploring the birth of a Dutch identity between 1780 and 1830, this book integrates nationalism studies with literary and linguistic history by ...
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The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic Introduction
Allison BurketteCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99Appalachian Englishes (AEs) possess an array of linguistic features that distinguish them from other American Englishes, yet the rich history of la...
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The Social Life of Appalachian Englishes: A Sociolinguistic Introduction
Allison BurketteCurrent price €125.27Original price €143.99Appalachian Englishes (AEs) possess an array of linguistic features that distinguish them from other American Englishes, yet the rich history of la...
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Runes - Volume 2: LéCriture Des Anciens Germains_runes Vikings& Traditions Runiques
Pollington StephenCurrent price €40.88Original price €46.99Books on Runes are not legion in France. Ever since the Introduction to Runology by Lucien Musset in 1965, very few works have been published on th...
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Social Semiotics: Key Figures, New Directions
Elise Seip TonnessenCurrent price €57.41Original price €65.99M.A.K Hallidays work has been hugely influential in linguistics and beyond since the 1960s. This is a collection of interviews with key figures in ...
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Einführung in die deutsche Sprachgeschichte
Hans Ulrich SchmidCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Diese Einführung bietet einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der deutschen Sprache vom Althochdeutschen bis zum Frühneuhochdeutschen mit Ausblicken...
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Handbuch Deutschsprachig-jüdische Literatur seit der Aufklärung Bd. 3: Sprachkulturen
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KGCurrent price €107.00Original price €122.99Das Handbuch bietet eine anhand von 6 Paradigmen entfaltete Darstellung deutschsprachig-jüdischer Literatur seit der Aufklärung. Ausgangspunkt ist ...
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The Mayan Languages
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €273.17Original price €313.99The Mayan Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the language family associated with the Classic Mayan civilization (AD 200900), a family who...
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International English: A Guide to Varieties of English Around the World
Jean HannahCurrent price €39.14Original price €44.99From Singapore to Scotland, Canada to the Channel Islands, Namibia to New Zealand and beyond, International English takes you on a fascinating jour...
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination
Jennifer Taylor WesterfeldCurrent price €62.63Original price €71.99Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphi...
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A Social History of Hebrew: Its Origins Through the Rabbinic Period
William M. SchniedewindCurrent price €36.53Original price €41.99More than simply a method of communication shared by a common people, the Hebrew language was always an integral part of the Jewish cultural system...
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Exploring Linguistic Standards in Non-Dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages- Explorando estándares lingueísticos en variedades no dominantes de lenguas pluricéntricas
Peter Lang AGCurrent price €78.29Original price €89.99This volume commemorates the 20th anniversary of Michael Clynes seminal volume «Pluricentric languages. Differing norms in different countries» pub...
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European Francophonie: The Social, Political and Cultural History of an International Prestige Language
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €81.77Original price €93.99This volume examines the use of French in European language communities outside France from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The phenomeno...
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