Category: Linguistics

This book is peppered with hundreds of food-related sayings--idioms that owe their origins to anywhere that food and drink is prepared and served.
View More...

The English Language (Canto Classics)

By: Charles Barber

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: March 2012

Seller ID: 312813

ISBN: 1107693934

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Shakespeare and Chaucer, the English language is explored in terms of where it came from, where it is going, and the global impact it has had, taking into account the many varieties of English that now exist. Stimulating and interesting, it is not only written for specialists on language and linguistics, but also for general reader...
View More...

A Course in Modern Linguistics by Hockett, Charles F.(June 1, 1958) Hardcover

By: Charles F. Hockett

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div: January 1700

Seller ID: 281452

ISBN: B014S2Y8T4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Facts on File Dictionary of Cliches: Meanings And Origins of Thousands of Terms and Expressions (Writers Library)

By: Christine Ammer

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Checkmark Books: March 2006

Seller ID: 307361

ISBN: 0816062803

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This updated and expanded edition explains the meanings and origins of almost 4,000 cliches and common expressions. Each entry includes the meaning of the cliche or expression, its origin and early uses, the historical development, and its present-day usage. This comprehensive reference is fully indexed and cross-referenced.
View More...

A Civil Tongue

By: Edwin Newman

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill: October 1976

Seller ID: 170479

ISBN: 0672522675

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Partridge's Concise Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English

By: Eric Partridge

Price: $7.95

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc: October 1990

Seller ID: 311937

ISBN: 0026053500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Image for Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with commentary on lexicographers and linguists

Robert Hartwell Fiske's Dictionary of Unendurable English: A Compendium of Mistakes in Grammar, Usage, and Spelling with commentary on lexicographers and linguists

By: Fiske, Robert Hartwell

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Scribner: November 2011

Seller ID: 341695

ISBN: 1451651325

Condition: Used - Very Good

Robert Hartwell Fiske aims to eliminate laxity in language today by way of this witty and engaging reference. Fiske rails against "laxicographers and ding-a-linguists" who, with their misguided thinking, actually promote the dissolution of the English language. He also illustrates why dictionaries don't always provide the correct meaning or usage of a word. With concise instruction and numerous examples of misused words, Fiske makes it easier than ever to learn from others' mistakes. This comprehensive dictionary of common misusages lays bare the mistakes we all make every day. Robert ...
View More...

Grammar for Grammarians : Prescriptive, Descriptive, Generative, Contextual

By: Frank Parker, Kathryn Riley

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Parlay Press: September 2005

Seller ID: 345023

ISBN: 0976718014

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Metaphors We Live By

By: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

Price: $6.95

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: April 2003

Seller ID: 312946

ISBN: 0226468011

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very 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 s...
View More...

Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis: The military origins of everyday words and phrases (General Military)

By: Graeme Donald

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Osprey Publishing: October 2008

Seller ID: 323088

ISBN: 1846033004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Did you know they started 'hearing through the grapevine' during the American Civil War? It was a reference to the telegraph lines used for communicating with the army. These looked like twisted grapevines. And why does the phrase now suggest unreliable information? Because the lines were used by enemy troops to send false battle reports. Similarly, 'deadline' has a rather disturbing and extremely sinister origin. Again originating in the American Civil War it refers to an actual line drawn in the dirt or marked by a fence around prisoners. If the prisoners crossed this line the guards wou...
View More...

Integrated Theory of Linguistic Descriptions (Research Monograph)

By: Jerrold J Katz

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Mit Press: December 1964

Seller ID: 281453

ISBN: 0262110113

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Child's Path to Spoken Language

By: John L. Locke

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harvard University Press: January 1993

Seller ID: 282125

ISBN: 0674116402

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Progressing gradually from babbling to meaningful sentences is something most babies do naturally. But why do they? John Locke's answer constitutes a fascinating journey along the path of language development, a tour that takes in all the stops--neurological and perceptual, social and linguistic--that mark the way to intelligible speech. A major synthesis of the latest research on early language acquisition, this volume revises the way we understand ourselves and our approach to speech.
View More...