The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, Paperback

Reducere. This new, thoroughly revised edition of the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language incorporates the major developments in language study whic...

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language - David Crystal

DescriptionNow in its third edition, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language provides the most comprehensive coverage of the history, st...

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From Arabic and Japanese to Hebrew, Javanese and Cherokee, explore 26 unique scripts and alphabets with Lonely Planet- and learn to write local pro...

Publisher: Battlebridge PublicationsAuthor(s): Mikael ParkvallIllustration(s): Illustrations, maps, ports, facsimsNumber of pages: 378Publication d...

In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most p...

In this previously unpublished series of interviews, Chomsky discusses his thoughts concerning language, human nature and politics with Professor o...

During the first year of the first Waldorf school, Rudolf Steiner agreed to give a science course to the teachers, which was to be on the nature of...

Publisher: Quercus PublishingAuthor(s): Sverker JohanssonTranslator: Frank PerryPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 215 x 233 x 35Cover type: Paperba...

A cutting-edge handbook that surveys the nature of second language learning and the implications for teaching. Contributors discuss prominent theor...

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, charting its key ideas and movements...

Through accessible analyses of Merleau-Ponty's views of linguistic expression and understanding, and by tracing the evolution of these views throug...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and...

'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - ObserverRoland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris stre...

This cross-linguistic study explores the role of the ideophone - a single word that conveys an impression of what it describes - in language evolut...

Reducere. The Rustle of Language, Paperback

Reducere. How does language work? How do children learn their mother tongue? Why do languages change over time, making Shakespearean English difficult for us...

Contributor(s): Author: Umberto EcoEco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into t...

For well over two hundred years, Joseph Haydn has been by turns lionized and misrepresented - held up as celebrity, and disparaged as mere forerunn...

The anatomy, compound linguistic elements, history and development of language and writing systems - along with what the future might hold - are ex...

Reducere. DescriptionEurythmy is a modern movement art developed by Rudolph Steiner in which the sounds of language and music are expressed through gesture a...

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Reducere. There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150, 000 years ago...

The tools, concepts, and vocabulary of phenomenology are used in this book to explore language in a multitude of contexts.About the AuthorMaurice M...

P. A. Gorner's English translation of Ernst Tugendhat's major philosophical work brought new perspectives to some of the central and abiding questi...

Reducere. This book introduces readers to basic concepts of sociolinguistics with a focus on Spanish in the US. The coverage goes beyond linguistics to exami...

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Offers a quick yet comprehensive explanation of the invitational process - the easy-to-follow, brain-based process created to invite adolescent wri...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Ro...

Reducere. In this bold and lyrical debut, Sondra weaves personal narrative with philosophical themes, crafting a story about love, solitude, and the unsayabl...

Reducere. What a big brain we have for all the small talk we make. It's an evolutionary riddle that at long last makes sense in this intriguing book about wh...

This text offers an engaging introduction to the study of linguistics, focusing on the foundational areas (sound, structure, and meaning). Aimed at...

The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia - Nicholas Vazsonyi

This book seeks to explore the dynamic nature of the language classroom.Publisher: Cambridge University PressAuthor(s): Ian (Universite Libre de Br...

The linguistic study of Japanese, with its rich syntactic and phonological structure, complex writing system, and diverse sociohistorical context, ...

Aimed at researchers and advanced students working in systemic functional linguistics (SFL) and other functional and cognitive areas of linguistics...

Reducere. Your value in the construction industry will be measured by your understanding and use of its terminology. THIS UPDATED AND EXPANDED EDTION gives c...

This volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of second language learning. The focus throughout the book is primarily on language l...

Formal semantics - the scientific study of meaning in natural language - is one of the most fundamental and long-established areas of linguistics. ...

Embarking on the need to have an encyclopedia of body language was a task nursed for years and stirred fear in me for many reasons. First, it was p...

Language and music have much in common, such as rhythm, structure, sound and metaphor. Drawing on ideas from linguistics, performance studies and m...

This book is for anyone interested in the history of encyclopedias, including academics in the humanities and non-academic readers with an interest...

Reducere. The most comprehensive single-volume reference of its kind, the encyclopedia has been updated and expanded and now contains definitions and origins...

Contributor(s): Author: Evert Van Emde BoasAuthor: Albert RijksbaronAuthor: Luuk HuitinkThis is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical...

This introduction to the sounds of Korean is designed for English-speaking students with no prior knowledge of the language and includes online sou...

Originally published in 1972, this study is dedicated to the surviving speakers of the Dyirbal, Giramay and Mamu dialects.Publisher: Cambridge Univ...