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From bodily functions to the dirtiest insults onto war and weaponry to illicit substances, this book goes where no dictionary has dared go before. It is the only adults-only etymology dictionary.

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A comprehensive guide to the latest developments in morphology

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A comprehensive guide to the latest developments in morphology

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A History of Language charts the history of linguistics from the times of Homo erectus through to the nineteenth century when the science of linguistics was developed and analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form.

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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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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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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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"A powerful new examination of the performative that asks "what's next" for this well-worn concept"--

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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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An attractive new dual edition of two of Chomsky's most popular books on language.

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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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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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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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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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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.

Learning a new language is easier than you think! This informative book teaches you the basics of American Sign Language.

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An unusual and authoritative 'natural history of languages' that narrates the ways in which one language has superseded or outlasted another at different times in history.

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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.