Linguistics

Serendipities is an iconoclastic, dazzlingly erudite and witty demonstration, by one of the world's most brilliant thinkers, of how myths and lunacies can produce historical developments of no small significance.

Bibliographie cornélienne, ou Description raisonnée de toutes les éditions des oeuvres de Pierre Corneille, des imitations ou traductions qui en ont été faites, et des ouvrages relatifs à Corneille et à ses écrits, est publiée à Paris 1876.

Whatever you do and wherever you go, you use language to interact.

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Russian script.

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Russian script.

'A rich compendium of incidents, anecdotes and studies illustrating the linguistic abilities of animals .

In Reading Between the Signs, Anna Mindess provides a perspective on a culture that is not widely understood - American Deaf culture.

More and more people hundreds of millions around the world are living in bilingual homes.

This breakthrough scientific masterwork - and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - reveals the underlying forces that have shaped human history and will secure our future.

'An enchanting story about love, loss and the power of language' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll FactorySometimes you have to start with what's lost to truly find yourself.

'Marvellously clear.

THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.

'Searingly honest and important' RACHEL CLARKEHonest, intelligent and unsentimental, Patient 1 is a startling self-portrait written with wit and vulnerability, and a unique testament to the power of hope in the face of illness.

Grasping how to swear is a crucial skill to any English-speaker, but it can be a tricky business.

'WHAT EVERY PARENT SHOULD KNOW .

This is the call he is always ready for.

In this brilliant transatlantic survival guide, Erin Moore examines the key differences between the British and the Americans through their language.

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The book, "e;Wet under the Rainbow"e; by Akariza Laurette Annely, explores the profound impact of the genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda on the younger generation.

This book will give you the skills to learn to speak any language with confidence.

'In terms of a non-fiction account of how historical and contemporary language has been shaped by women, I really recommend lexicographer Jonathon Green's Sounds and Furies'ELEY WILIAMS, author of The Liar's Dictionary'When it comes to distaff dirtiness, mainstream males such as Dickens and Dekker make easy pickings, but Green finds the greatest treasures when he mudlarks on the margins.

Is this the right book for me?

After the enormous international success of The Phantom Atlas and The Golden Atlas, Edward Brooke-Hitchings stunning new book unveils some of the most beautiful maps and charts ever created during mankinds quest to map theskies above us.

Stunning.

Der Band befragt Formen, Praktiken und Qualitäten von Schriftlichkeit im historischen Wandel.

Fußball wird nicht nur gespielt und geschaut, über Fußball wird auch gesprochen und geschrieben.

Haurren liburu elebiduna (euskara – ingelesa)Tim-ek ezin du lorik egin.

երկլեզու մանկական գիրք (հայերեն – գերմաներեն)Թիմը չի կարող քնել: Նա կորցրել է իր գայլուկին։ Հնարավոր է մոռացել է նրան դրսում։ Թիմը գիշերով մենակ գնում է դուրս և հանդիպում ընկերներին​։​"Ամուր քնիր փոքրիկ գայլուկ​" -ը քնելուց առաջ սիրտը ջերմացնող պատմություն է: Այն թարգմանվել է ավելի քան 50 լեզուներով և ​առկա է երկլեզու հրատարակության տեսքով՝ լեզուների ցանկացած համակցությամբ։Zweisprachiges Bilderbuch (Armenisch – Deutsch)Tim kann nicht einschlafen.

En pocos momentos como en el actual, la cultura ha gozado de tanto crecimiento como de tan mala consideración o indiferencia.

Vom 5.

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language.

How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources?

Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab's start in life was tough.

With an afterword by David Crystal and contributions from Philip Pullman, Jilly Cooper, Jeremy Vine and Meera Syal, all life is here.

A big sister is horrified when she can't fit into her swimming costume.

As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates.

Wherever you go in the English-speaking world, there are linguistic riches from times past awaiting rediscovery.

Some people say scohn, while others say schown.

As read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.

Has your doctor ever prescribed you some bug-juice?

The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio.

"e;Guy Deutscher is that rare beast, an academic who talks good sense about linguistics.

Once languages become written, they change.

The language of crime has a long and venerable history - in fact, the first collection of words specifically used by criminals, Hye-Way to the Spittel House, dates from as early as 1531.

In his best-selling Strictly English Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language well.

There can be few subjects of such widespread interest and fascination to anyone who reads as the strange ways of languages.

Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker?

Half the world's languages are threatened with extinction over the next century, as English and the rest of the world's top twenty languages drive all before them.