Category: Linguistics

Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Trinity University Press : September 2006

Seller ID: 527707

ISBN-13: 9781595340245

Barry Lopez asked 45 poets and writers to define terms that describe America's land and water forms -- phrases like flatiron, bayou, monadnock, kiss tank, meander bar, and everglade. The result is a major enterprise comprising over 850 descriptions, 100 line drawings, and 70 quotations from works by Willa Cather, Truman Capote, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, and others. Carefully researched and exquisitely written by talents such as Barbara Kingsolver, Lan Samantha Chang, Robert Hass, Terry Tempest Williams, Jon Krakauer, Gretel Ehrlich, Luis Alberto Urrea, Antonya Nelson, Charles Frazier, Lind...
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Language, Truth and Logic (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)

By: Ayer, Alfred Jules

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : June 1952

Seller ID: 755182

ISBN-13: 9780486200101

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A delightful book ... I should like to have written it myself. -- Bertrand RussellFirst published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, studen...
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Adam's Tongue: How Humans Made Language, How Language Made Humans

By: Bickerton, Derek

Price: $5.00

Seller ID: 793152

ISBN-13: 9780809016471

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam's Tongue, Derek Bickerton--long a leading authority in this field--shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn't the only thing that sets us apart from other species--our cognitive powers are qualitatively diffe...
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MADE IN AMERICA (REI. NEW COVER)

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $5.00

Publisher: TW Adult : September 2016

Seller ID: 413952

ISBN-13: 9781784161866

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : January 1990

Seller ID: 92973

ISBN-13: 9780380715435

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"Vastly informative and vastly entertaining...A scholarly and fascinating book." --Los Angeles Times With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into one of the world's largest growth industries....
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A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages...Especially English

By: Burgess, Anthony

Price: $5.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Co : August 1993

Seller ID: 777685

ISBN-13: 9780688119355

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Yeats once wrote of a poem, saying he had made it out of a mouthful of air. Burgess advances this point by presenting a fascinating survey of language--how it operates, and how it will develop in the future--that ranges from Shakespearean pronunciation to the place of English in the world family of languages.
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Language and the Discovery of Reality

By: Church, Joseph

Price: $2.50

Publisher: : September 2014

Seller ID: 282611

ISBN: V338

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

A Little Book of Language

By: Crystal, David

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Yale University Press : June 2010

Seller ID: 716450

ISBN-13: 9780300155334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a young audience, expert linguist David Crystal proves why the story of language deserves retelling.From the first words of an infant to the peculiar modern dialect of text messaging, A Little Book of Language ranges widely, revealing language s myriad intricacies and quirks. In animated fashion, Crystal sheds light on the development of unique linguist...
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Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners

By: Erard, Michael

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Free Press : January 2012

Seller ID: 683162

ISBN-13: 9781451628258

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In the tradition of the bestsellers Word Freak and The Language Instinct comes a fascinating exploration of linguistic superlearners whose abilities shed light on the intellectual potential in us all. What do an Italian cardinal, a Connecticut blacksmith, and a German diplomat have in common with an MIT linguist, a Hungarian translator, and a Scottish church organist? They were all "hyperpolyglots," "language superlearners," or "massive multilinguals." In Babel No More, Michael Erard delves into the lives and minds of these intriguing individuals both past and present and discovers the upper l...
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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

By: Florey, Kitty

Price: $6.00

Publisher: : October 2012

Seller ID: 603541

ISBN-13: 9780156034432

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In its heyday, sentence diagramming was wildly popular in grammar schools across the country. Kitty Burns Florey learned the method in sixth grade from Sister Bernadette: It was a bit like art, a bit like mathematics. It was a picture of language. I was hooked. Now, in this offbeat history, Florey explores the sentence-diagramming phenomenon, including its humble roots at the Brooklyn Polytechnic, its balloon diagram predecessor, and what diagrams of famous writers' sentences reveal about them. Along the way Florey offers up her own commonsense approach to learning and using good grammar. Char...
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Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences

By: Florey, Kitty Burns

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Melville House : October 2006

Seller ID: 666853

ISBN-13: 9781933633107

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"Kitty Burns Florey seems to write from a great wellspring of inner calm that derives from a gleeful appreciation of life's smallest details."--Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls Once wildly popular in grammar schools across the country, sentence diagramming has fallen out of fashion. But are we that much worse for not knowing the word-mapping method? Now, in this illustrated personal history that any language lover will adore, Kitty Burns Florey explores the rise and fall of sentence diagramming, including its invention by a mustachioed man named Brainerd "Brainy" K...
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Holism: A Shopper's Guide

By: Fodor, Jerry,Lepore, Ernest

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell : April 1992

Seller ID: 744556

ISBN-13: 9780631181934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Etymologicon

By: Forsyth, Mark

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd : November 2016

Seller ID: 750933

ISBN-13: 9781785781704

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How is Language Possible?

By: Hattiangadi

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : February 2015

Seller ID: 746415

ISBN-13: 9780812690453

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Book jacket: The meaning of a word is not an abstract idea for which the word stands, nor is it the uses to which the word can be out, nor the linguistic rules governing the word's use. The meaning of a word is a set of theories. How can different individuals learn the same language, of potentially infinite complexity, if each possesses only finite evidence, which moreover, does not completely coincide with the evidence possessed by other individuals? The answer is that their understanding of language is approximate. Individuals never really understand a different, distinct language, which is ...
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By: Lakoff, George,Johnson, Mark

Price: $7.50

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : April 2003

Seller ID: 722084

ISBN-13: 9780226468013

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are metaphors we live by--metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them. In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an...
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Category: Linguistics