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  • The Language of Light

    A History of Silent Voices

    by Gerald Shea ...
    A comprehensive history of deafness, signed languages, and the unresolved struggles of the Deaf to be taught in their unspoken tongue Partially deaf due to a childhood illness, Gerald Shea is no stranger to the search for communicative grace and clarity. In this eloquent and thoroughly researched book, he uncovers the centuries-long struggle of the Deaf to be taught in sign language—the only ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

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  • What Language Is

    And What It Isn't and What It Could Be

    by John McWhorter ...
    New York Times bestselling author and renowned linguist, John McWhorter, explores the complicated and fascinating world of languages. From Standard English to Black English; obscure tongues only spoken by a few thousand people in the world to the big ones like Mandarin - What Language Is celebrates the history and curiosities of languages around the world and smashes our assumptions about "correct ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How Language Began

    Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

    by David McNeill ...
    Series series Approaches to the Evolution of Language
    Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human brain, and the study of how both have evolved is central to research on the origins of human communication. Written by one of the pioneers of the field, this is the first book to explain how speech and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Tarahumara Medicine

    Ethnobotany and Healing among the Rarámuri of Mexico

    by Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón, Alfonso Paredes ...
    The Tarahumara, one of North America’s oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rarámuri, meaning “nimble feet”—and though they live in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their agility in long-distance running is famous worldwide. Tarahumara Medicine is the first in-depth look into the culture that sustains the “great runners.” Having spent a decade in Tarahumara communities, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Chinese Characters Learning & Practice Book, Volume 1

    Learning Chinese Characters with Their Stories in Colour, Volume 1

    by S. W. Well ...
    Series Book 1 - Chinese Characters Learning & Practice Book
    A series of simple books that answers all your questions about the fascinating ancient Chinese characters from their correct Stroke sequences to proper Mandarin pronunciations, all with the help of their most desirable stories told accurately in the first ever colour-coded illustrations that will guarantee to make your learning and memorizing them most effective, fun, and intellectually satisfying ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Genetics for Language Scientists

    Current Concepts, Methods, and Findings

    by Dan Dediu ...
    During the last few decades we have discovered enormous amounts about our genomes, their evolution and, importantly for linguists and language scientists, the genetic foundations of language and speech. Accessible and readable, this introduction is designed specifically for students and researchers working in language and linguistics. It carefully focuses on the most relevant concepts, methods and ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Grammar, Rhetoric and Usage in English

    Preposition Placement 1500–1900

    by Nuria Yáñez-Bouza ...
    Series series Studies in English Language
    The preposition is of particular interest to syntacticians, historians and sociolinguists of English, as its placement within a sentence is influenced by syntactic and sociolinguistic constraints, and by how the 'rules' regarding prepositions have changed over time, as a result of language change, of change in attitudes towards language, and of processes such as standardization. This book ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Don’T Talk with Your Mouth Full

    100 Tips to Sign Language Sanity

    by Marie LaBozzetta Laurino ...
    In every culture, there are guidelines as to what is most appropriate and what actions need to be avoided. This also holds true for the Deaf community and the hard of hearing population. In Dont Talk with Your Mouth Full, author Dr. Marie LaBozzetta Laurino provides a host of dos and donts when learning to become a signer, communicator, or interpreter.Laurino presents helpful tips, motivational ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Semantics

    A Coursebook

    by James R. Hurford, Brendan Heasley, Michael B. Smith ...
    This practical coursebook introduces all the basics of semantics in a simple, step-by-step fashion. Each unit includes short sections of explanation with examples, followed by stimulating practice exercises to complete in the book. Feedback and comment sections follow each exercise to enable students to monitor their progress. No previous background in semantics is assumed, as students begin by ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Use of Gender Markers in Animals

    As Demonstrated by Issues of National Geographic

    by Ludmila Zemková ...
    Series Book 112 - DASK – Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft / Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture
    This book is a contribution to the study of the linguistic concept of gender. It focuses on the problem of assigning gender to animal nouns. This problem is topical in view of the fact that in present-day English, gender is a marginal grammatical category and therefore recedes into the background in descriptions of today’s English. Grammatical gender is a rare topic of research, scientific ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Bantu Languages of Western Equatorial Africa

    Handbook of African Languages

    by Malcolm Guthrie ...
    Series series Linguistic Surveys of Africa
    The area covered by this book, originally published in 1953, is one that has long been recognized as presenting many problems from the point of view of Bantu linguistic studies. Almost all the material set out in this present work is based on notes taken in the field, and in many cases presented completely new facts. The sources of the information used are listed at the end of the linguistic ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Hong Kong English

    Exploring Lexicogrammar and Discourse from a Corpus-Linguistic Perspective

    by May Wong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book systematically examines the linguistic features and socio-cultural issues of ‘Hong Kong English’. The author focuses on authentic data taken from the International Corpus of English (the Hong Kong component) and the Corpus of Global Web-based English to track the ways in which the English language in Hong Kong has been adapted by its users. She also analyses the emergence of new forms ... Read more

    $49.49 USD