(Paperback, 4th edition)
By: Kim Ballard
ISBN: 9781352013078
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: John D. Wright
ISBN: 9781573561358
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is a compilation of slang, nicknames, military jargon and terminology, idioms, colloquialisms, and other words and expressions used (and often originating) during the American Civil War.
(Paperback)
By: Mark Abley
ISBN: 9780099484462
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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As much a travel book as a linguistic study, this book goes beyond grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, this book is about the people of the world.
On his travels Abley encounters bloggers, translators, novelists, therapists, dictionary makers, hip-hop performers and web-savvy teenagers.
(Hardback)
By: Dr Piotr Sadowski
ISBN: 9781350016149
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Discusses the semiotic use of light and shadows in modern visual and performing arts, including painting, the shadow theatre, silhouette portraits, photography and early cinema.
(Paperback)
By: Dr Piotr Sadowski
ISBN: 9781350119017
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: John McWhorter
ISBN: 9780738204468
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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A barbed rebuttal to the conservative view that popular culture is destroying the English language.
(Hardback)
By: Julian Walker
ISBN: 9781350001930
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Hugh Lunn
ISBN: 9780733322518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: ABC Books
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This wonderful follow up o the best selling Lost for Words continues its humorous and nostalgic trip through our language.
(Paperback)
By: Tometro Hopkins
ISBN: 9781474298469
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Tometro Hopkins
ISBN: 9781474298537
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback, 3rd edition)
By: Simon Horobin
ISBN: 9781350473782
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Introduces students to Chaucer's language and the importance of reading Chaucer in the original, rather than in a modern translation.
(Hardback)
By: Martha Barnette
ISBN: 9781419778841
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 11th September 2025
Publisher: Abrams
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(Paperback)
By: Kees Versteegh
ISBN: 9781399542708
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2026
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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This is the third edition, fully revised and updated, of this indispensable introduction to Arabic linguistics.
(Hardback)
By: Kees Versteegh
ISBN: 9781399542692
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2026
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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This is the third edition, fully revised and updated, of this indispensable introduction to Arabic linguistics.
(Hardback)
By: Susan J. Dicker
ISBN: 9781793649065
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Steven Roger Fischer
ISBN: 9781780239033
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 11th June 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Ben Yagoda
ISBN: 9780691262291
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
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"--
(Paperback)
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.
(Hardback)
By: Edmund Blair Bolles
ISBN: 9781582436418
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Paperback)
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.
(Paperback)
By: Anne Vize
ISBN: 9781876580612
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.
(Hardback)
By: Andrea Moro
ISBN: 9780262037129
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A journey through linguistic time and space, from Aristotle through the twentieth century's era of syntax, in search of a dangerous verb and its significance.
(Paperback)
By: Alberto Manguel
ISBN: 9780006546818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1997
UK Publication Date: 21st April 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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This history of reading goes from the earliest examples of the clay tablets and cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's digital revolution. It argues that it is the demands of the reader, acting alongside the will of the writer, that is the evolutionary motor of literary genres.
