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  • Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write (A Norton Short)

    Series Book 0 - A Norton Short
    In the industrial age, automation came for the shoemaker and the seamstress. Today, it has come for the writer, physician, programmer, and attorney.Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking readers on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories and missile defense ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Beyond Yellow English

    Toward a Linguistic Anthropology of Asian Pacific America

    Edited by Angela Reyes, Adrienne Lo ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics
    Beyond Yellow English is the first edited volume to examine issues of language, identity, and culture among the rapidly growing Asian Pacific American (APA) population. The distinguished contributors-who represent a broad range of perspectives from anthropology, sociolinguistics, English, and education-focus on the analysis of spoken interaction and explore multiple facets of the APA experience. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD $32.99 USD

  • Sorry About That

    The Language of Public Apology

    People do bad things. They misspeak, mislead, and misbehave. They lie, cheat, steal, and kill. Often, afterward, they apologize. But what makes a successful apology? Why does Joe Biden's 2007 apology for referring to Barack Obama as "articulate and bright" succeed, whereas Mel Gibson's 2006 apology for his anti-Semitic tirade fails? Naturally, the effectiveness of an apology depends on the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

    A Guide to Everyday Questions About Language

    Is Ebonics really a dialect or simply bad English? Do women and men speak differently? Will computers ever really learn human language? Does offensive language harm children? These are only a few of the issues surrounding language that crop up every day. Most of us have very definite opinions on these questions one way or another. Yet as linguists Donna Jo Napoli and Vera Lee-Schoenfeld point out ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Informal English

    Puncture Ladies, Egg Harbors, Mississippi Marbles, and Other Curious Words and Phrases of North America

    The author of Forgotten English and The Word Museum “collects America’s colorful colloquialisms, past and present” (Publishers Weekly).Gleaned from antiquated dictionaries, dialect glossaries, studies of folklore, nautical lexicons, historical writings, letters, novels, and miscellaneous sources, Informal English offers a captivating treasure trove of linguistic oddities that will not only ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Émigrés

    French Words That Turned English

    The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French-speaking cultures across the worldEnglish has borrowed more words from French than from any other modern foreign language. French words and phrases—such as à la mode, ennui, naïveté and caprice—lend English a certain je-ne-sais-quoi that would ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Languages of the Jews

    A Sociolinguistic History

    Historical sociolinguistics is a comparatively new area of research, investigating difficult questions about language varieties and choices in speech and writing. Jewish historical sociolinguistics is rich in unanswered questions: when does a language become 'Jewish'? What was the origin of Yiddish? How much Hebrew did the average Jew know over the centuries? How was Hebrew re-established as a ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Modern German Thought from Kant to Habermas

    An Annotated German-Language Reader

    Edited by Henk de Berg, Duncan Large ...
    German-language thinkers such as Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud are central to modernity. Yet their reception in the English-speaking world has largely depended on translations, a situation that has often hampered full engagement with the rhetorical and philosophical complexity of the German history of ideas. The present volume, the first of its kind, is a response to this situation. After an ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Series Book 35 - Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Bilingual Brain

    And What It Tells Us about the Science of Language

    by Albert Costa ...
    'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher SpectatorThe definitive study of bilingualism and the human brain from a leading neuropsychologistOver half of the world's population is bilingual and yet few ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The English Language: A Very Short Introduction

    by Simon Horobin ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? In this Very Short Introduction Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today, and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Writing on the Wall

    Everyday Phrases from the King James Bible

    by Richard Noble ...
    The King James Bible is a treasure-trove of idioms and clichés that have entered everyone's vocabulary-and yet few are aware of the Bible as their source.Whether your interest is purely linguistic, theological, or devotional, this book assumes no prior familiarity with the scriptures. By providing the context of each book and phrase it becomes a useful guidebook, bringing the Bible alive. With 40 ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Eastern Cherokee Stories

    A Living Oral Tradition and Its Cultural Continuance

    “Throughout our Cherokee history,” writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, “our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are.”These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts of Gadugi, working together for the good of all, and Duyvkta, walking the right path, and teach listeners how to understand and live in the world with reverence for all ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Linguistic Condition

    Kant's Critique of Judgment and the Poetics of Action

    Providing a unique interpretation of Kant's theory of judgement as integral to his overall project, Claudia Brodsky explores his continued relevance to contemporary theoretical concerns. The Linguistic Condition traces how Kant combined sensus communis, or common sense with the communicative nature of judgement to reveal that, for him, acts of judgement are dependent on their linguistic ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • The Fall of Roman Britain

    and Why We Speak English

    “Fascinating. . . . Will have a very special appeal to readers [interested] in the evolution of the English language, Roman history, and medieval British history.” —Midwest Book ReviewThe end of empire in Britain was both more abrupt and more complete than in any of the other European Roman provinces. When the fog clears and Britain re-enters the historical record, it is, unlike other former ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Arabic

    Structures, Functions, and Varieties, Revised Edition

    by Clive Holes ...
    Series series Georgetown Classics in Arabic Languages and Linguistics series
    The revised and updated edition of Modern Arabic takes this authoritative, concise linguistic description of the structure and use of modern Arabic to an invaluable new level. Clive Holes traces the development of the Arabic language from Classical Arabic, the written language used in the 7th century for the Qur'an and poetry, through the increasingly symbiotic use of Modern Standard Arabic or MSA ... Read more

    $44.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian

    by Sandra Chung ...
    Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian makes an outstanding contribution to both Polynesian and historical linguistics. It is at once a reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian. In its treatment of the history of case ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Greek

    Generations of students have discovered the enduring pleasures of ancient Greek with this classic text. Supplemented by exercises, readings, and review lessons, it presents concise but thorough coverage of grammatical forms and syntax. Students advance from the simple fundamentals of the alphabet and declensions to the complexities of conditional sentences, and they acquire a Greek vocabulary of ... Read more

    $18.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way

    A guide to the artistry that lifts a sentence from good to great.We all know the basic structure of a sentence: a subject/verb pair expressing a complete thought and ending with proper punctuation. But that classroom definition doesn’t begin to describe the ways in which these elements can combine to resonate with us as we read, to make us stop and think, laugh or cry.In 25 Great Sentences and How ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kenneth Burke + The Posthuman

    Series series RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke’s thought grapples with these ostensibly contradictory concepts as opportunities for invention, revision, and, importantly, transdisciplinary knowledge making.Rather than simply mapping posthumanist rhetorics onto Burke’s ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • First Language Acquisition

    by Eve V. Clark ...
    How do young children learn language? When does this process start? What does language acquisition involve? Children are exposed to language from birth, surrounded by knowledgeable speakers who offer feedback and provide extensive practice every day. Through conversation and joint activities, children master the language being used around them. This fully revised third edition of Eve V. Clark's ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Always On : Language In An Online And Mobile World

    by Naomi Baron ...
    In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online and mobile technologies--including instant messaging, cell phones, multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and wikis--are profoundly influencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in the ways we might suppose. Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for instance ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Teaching and Learning Arabic as a Foreign Language

    A Guide for Teachers

    This guide clearly and succinctly presents the basic tenets of teaching foreign languages specifically for Arabic teachers. Consolidating findings from second language acquisition (SLA) research and applied linguistics, it covers designing curricula, theory and methods, goals, testing, and research, and intersperses practical information with background literature in order to help teachers improve ... Read more

    $38.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fundamentals of Translation

    by Sonia Colina ...
    Clear and concise, this textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the basic and central concepts of translation theory and practice, including translation briefs, parallel texts and textual functions, cohesion and coherence, and old and new information. Colina focuses on the key concepts that beginning students of translation, practising translators, language students and language ... Read more

    $30.99 USD