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By: Ferdinand la Saussure

ISBN: 9780812690231
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.


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By: Sheldon Bull

ISBN: 9781932907278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
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This comprehensive guide is for those who want to launch a career as a television sitcom writer and features detailed inside information on how to write scripts that will get noticed.


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By: Charles E. Bennett

ISBN: 9781585102440
Readership/Audience: Adult Education
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
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Includes sections on the Indo-European language family and on Latin meter, addition of a brief bibliography, and a reorganized index of sources. This title is suitable for intermediate-level students.


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By: Jeffrey T. Nealon

ISBN: 9781517910860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next" for this well-worn concept"--


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By: Nick Morgan

ISBN: 9781591397144
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2005
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
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'Kinesthetic' speaking involves actively 'listening' to your audience with your whole body, and is the element of public speaking that moves audiences to action. This book helps managers at various levels learn how to successfully use this type of public speaking to engage audiences of any size, intellectually, emotionally, as well as physically.


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By: Noam Chomsky

ISBN: 9781565844759
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1999
Publisher: The New Press
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An attractive new dual edition of two of Chomsky's most popular books on language.


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By: Scott Soames

ISBN: 9780691155975
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott


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By: John Hobson

ISBN: 9781920899554
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Sydney University Press
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The Indigenous languages of Australia have been undergoing a renaissance over recent decades. Many languages that had long ceased to be heard in public and consequently deemed 'dead' or 'extinct'.


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By: Aristotle

ISBN: 9781624667336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
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By: Anatoly Liberman

ISBN: 9781517914127
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"Spanning more than three centuries, Take My Word for It is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind window into the surprisingly short history of idioms in English. Widely known for his studies of word origins, Anatoly Liberman explains more than one thousand idioms, both popular and obscure, occurring in both American and British standard English and including many regional expressions"--


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By: 'B.E. Gent'

ISBN: 9781851243877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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The first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings, this book is a lost gem originally intended to educate the polite London classes in the parlance of thieves and ruffians, should they be so unlucky as to wander into the wrong parts of town.


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By: James N. Sneddon

ISBN: 9780868405988
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: UNSW Press
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This title is a historical, social, cultural and linguistic study of Indonesian culture. It traces the origins and pre-colonial development of the language and the emergence of classical Malay from the 14th century. It challenges many assumptions about the simplicity of the Indonesian language.


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By: Ludwig Wittgenstein

ISBN: 9781839982095
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Anthem Press
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Bazzocchi disposes the text of the Tractatus in a user-friendly manner, exactly as Wittgenstein's decimals advise. This discloses the logical form of the book by distinct reading units, linked into a fashioned hierarchical tree. The text becomes much clearer and every reader can enjoy, finally, its formal and literary qualities.


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By: Jason Lawrence

ISBN: 9780719069154
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, especially Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. -- .


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By: Judith Flanders

ISBN: 9781509881581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2021
UK Publication Date: 4th February 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.


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By: J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN: 9780008131395
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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First ever critical study of Tolkiens little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martins Game of Thrones.


By: Catherine Nichols

ISBN: 9781684122875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
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Learning a new language is easier than you think! This informative book teaches you the basics of American Sign Language.


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By: Edmund Blair Bolles

ISBN: 9781582436418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Gaston Dorren

ISBN: 9781781256411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2019
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A quirky language-lovers tour of the twenty most-spoken languages in the world - what puts them a cut above the other six thousand


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By: Dr Pamela Rogerson-Revell

ISBN: 9780826424037
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Covers key aspects of English phonology to help readers go on to teach pronunciation, diagnose problem areas and prioritize important skills. This book aims to provide a clear description of key aspects of English phonology in order to help teachers diagnose and prioritize problem areas in pronunciation.


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By: Blake Harrison

ISBN: 9781933662145
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Focus
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Offering a hip-hop approach to vocabulary building, this book/CD set allows students to sing their way to better SAT and ACT scores and have a great time doing it.


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By: Mark Collier

ISBN: 9780714119106
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1998
Publisher: British Museum Press
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A practical teach-yourself course on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for the general reader.


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By: Goldie Alexander

ISBN: 9781876580407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Phoenix Education Australia
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By: Anne Vize

ISBN: 9781876580605
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2003
Publisher: Phoenix Education Australia
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A resource book to help develop essential literacy skills in students with special learning needs. Each book contains four units, each starting with a story and followed by photocopiable worksheets.

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