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This clear and comprehensive guide provides a detailed critical overview of the study of regional dialect in the English language, giving a complete history of work on dialects from the sixteenth century to the present day, from early dialect dictionaries to modern research in geolinguistics, and looking at English dialects across the world.

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Original advice on how you can start writing from 60 contemporary authors, drawing on their unique experiences and journeys to the written word. Advice is grouped for easy references, from how to begin and picture scenes, to writers' golden rules. Illustrated with over 20 original drawings

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Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back the curtain to show you how its done and how you can do it, too. The volume on fiction (including poetry) includes interviews with Ray Bradbury, Alice Walker, Nick Hornby, Anthony Doerr, Amy Tan, and more.

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Great writing can seem to be an act of mystery, a gift given to just a few, but these renowned writers pull back the curtain to show you how its done and how you can do it, too. The volume on nonfiction (including journalism and memoir writing) includes interviews with Anne Lamont, David Brooks, Tracy Kidder, and Elizabeth Gilbert, and more.

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This is the third edition, fully revised and updated, of this indispensable introduction to Arabic linguistics.

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This is the third edition, fully revised and updated, of this indispensable introduction to Arabic linguistics.

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Now in its third edition with a new chapter on intersectionality and writing from the margins, this is an introductory guide to the genres of creative writing new writers will encounter, from memoir and personal essay to fiction, poetry and drama writing for the screen and performance.

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Do you want to lead a more fulfilled life with creativity at its heart This book helps show you how.

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In this book the authors draw together work from cognitive science, linguistics, Paleolithic anthropology, art history, and semiotics, the authors offer commentary on their own process of discovery and bases for communicating the key ideas across disciplinary boundaries.

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Exploring the relationship between language and literature in English literary texts, from the Old to the Early Modern English period, this book will guide students through the subject. Covering a wide range of linguistic features and texts, linguistic choices are analysed in terms of their stylistic and thematic significance.

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An AZ of intriguing, illuminating and surprising linguistic knowledge, written by the inventor of the bestselling quiz game about words and language, League of the Lexicon.

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The Literary Lifeline offers an interdisciplinary investigation into the phenomenon of reading for well-being. The book is a study of the transformative potential of literature.

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A collection of whimsical words for discovering more joy.

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A dazzling illumination of the astonishing kaleidoscope that is the English language, Useless Etymology explores and examines the words we use every day - and why we use them - with a joyful blend of wit, wonder and whimsy.

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The first comprehensive analysis of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule and Voicing Effect on a countrywide scale.

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Interweaving the authors personal journey through grief with a guide on how to write about it, this book is both Sam Meekings raw account of the death of his younger brother and a step-by-step breakdown of the memoir writing process.

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Proposes naming as a criterion for classifying and evaluating theories of morphology

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365 amazing words or expressions that will make every day of the year better from Britain's best-loved and most brilliant word expert, Susie Dent

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365 amazing words or expressions that will make every day of the year better from Britain's best-loved and most brilliant word expert, Susie Dent