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Made in America
Bill Bryson
Paperback - $24.95
Bill Bryson, author of the national bestseller The Mother Tongue, takes an informed and affectionate look at the history of the U.S. from the perspective of language and popular culture..
The Mother Tongue
Bill Bryson
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The author of the acclaimed The Lost Continent now steers us through the quirks and byways of the English language. We learn why island, freight, and colonel are spelled in such unphonetic ways, why four has a u in it but forty doesn't, plus bizarre ...
Reinventing Identities
Mary Bucholtz
Hardcover - $254.95
Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays ...
Reinventing Identities : The Gendered Self in Discourse
Mary Bucholtz
Paperback - $145.95
Talk is crucial to the way our identities are constructed, altered, and defended. Feminist scholars in particular have only begun to investigate how deeply language reflects and shapes who we think we are. This volume of previously unpublished essays ...
Buckley : The Right Word
Jr. Buckley
Paperback - $41.95
Aside from his considerable political persona, William F. Buckley is remarkably skilled in his understanding and usage of the English language. Here, for the first time and in one volume, is the complete Buckley on words: a collection of his provocat ...
Perspectives on the Oau/Au and Conflict Management in Africa
Abdalla Bujra
Paperback - $65.95
A three way co publication between the Development Policy Management Forum in Addis Ababa, the African Centre for Applied Research and Training in Social Development, and the Community of the Sahel Saharan States in Libya presenting a pan African per ...
Arabic Proverbs
John Lewis Burckhardt
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Completed just before his death in 1817 by one of the foremost European pioneers in Arabic studies. Reprint with Introduction by C.E. Bosworth.
The Social History of Language
Peter Burke
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In the last few years, social historians have discovered what might be called the 'linguistic dimension' of their discipline, just as sociolinguists have been discovering the 'historical dimension' and historians of language the 'social dimension'. T ...
Towards a Social History of Early Modern Dutch
Peter Burke
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From the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries, patterns of living and communication in the Netherlands transformed dramatically due to developments such as the rise of cities and the invention of the printing press. Now, cultural historian Pete ...