Tag search:language

The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English

by Hana Videen
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
language, english language, old english, unread, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
429.81

Babel, or, the necessity of violence: An arcane history of the Oxford translators' revolution

by R. F. Kuang
Hardcover, 2022
Tags
fantasy, alternate history, translation, language, oxford, nebula winner, hb
Call number
813/.6

Don't Sleep, there are Snakes: Life and language in the Amazonian jungle

by Daniel Leonard Everett
Paperback, 2009
Tags
unread, language, piraha, anthropology, tpb
Call number
305.898/9

La bella lingua: My love affair with Italian, the world's most enchanting language

by Dianne R. Hales
Ebook, 2009
Tags
italian, language, memoir, ebook
Collection
E-books
Call number
450

The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left

by David Crystal
Hardcover, 2006
Tags
language, english language, linguistic prescriptivism, grammar snobs, hb, no dust jacket
Call number
428

Damp Squid: The English language laid bare

by Jeremy Butterfield
Paperback, 2009
Tags
language, english language, english usage, tpb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
412

The Story of French

by Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Paperback, 2006
Tags
language, history, french language, history of french, tpb
Call number
440.9

The Secret Life of Pronouns: What our words say about us

by James W. Pennebaker
Paperback, 2011
Tags
language, linguistics, english language, psychology, pronouns, tpb
Call number
425.55

The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The quest to crack an ancient code

by Margalit Fox
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
language, decipherment, linear b, hb
Call number
487.1

Do you speak American?

by Robert MacNeil
Paperback, 2005
Tags
language, english language, american english, dialects, tpb
Call number
427.973

The Story of Spanish

by Jean-Benoît Nadeau
Hardcover, 2013
Tags
language, history, spanish, spanish language, history of spanish, hb
Call number
460.9

The bilingual edge: Why, when, and how to teach your child a second language

by Kendall A. King
Paperback, 2007
Tags
parenting, language, language acquisition, bilingualism, tpb
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
404.2083

Ad Infinitum: A biography of Latin

by Nicholas Ostler
Paperback, 2008
Tags
linguistics, language, latin, history, tpb
Call number
470.9

Empires of the Word: A language history of the world

by Nicholas Ostler
Paperback, 2006
Tags
nonfiction, language, linguistics, history, world history, history of language, tpb
Call number
409

The unfolding of language: An evolutionary tour of mankind's greatest invention

by Guy Deutscher
Paperback, 2006
Tags
linguistics, language, history of language, language change, santathing, nonfiction, tpb
Call number
401

Embassytown

by China Miéville
Hardcover, 2011
Tags
science fiction, language, hb
Call number
823.914

Talking Hands: What sign language reveals about the mind

by Margalit Fox
Paperback, 2007
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, sign language, tpb
Call number
419

The Language of Names

by Justin Kaplan
Paperback, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, language, names, tpb, culled
Collections
Reviewed, Previously Owned
Call number
929.4019

Lost Languages: The enigma of the world's undeciphered scripts

by Andrew Robinson
Paperback, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, language, languages, decipherment, tpb
Call number
411.09

Language visible: Unraveling the mystery of the alphabet from A to Z

by David Sacks
Hardcover, 2003
Tags
language, alphabet, hb
Call number
411

The Power of Babel: A natural history of language

by John H. McWhorter
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, language change, tpb
Call number
417.7

Born to kvetch: Yiddish language and culture in all its moods

by Michael Wex
Hardcover, 2005
Tags
language, yiddish, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
439.109

The Keys of Egypt: The obsession to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs

by Lesley Adkins
Paperback, 2001
Tags
nonfiction, history, biography, archaeology, language, decipherment, egypt, hieroglyphs, champollion, tpb
Call number
493.111

Origins of the Specious: Myths and misconceptions of the English language

by Patricia T. O'Conner
Paperback, 2010
Tags
language, english language, etymology, grammar, tpb
Call number
422

How Language Works: How babies babble, words change meaning, and languages live or die

by David Crystal
Hardcover, 2007
Tags
hb, nonfiction, language, linguistics
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
401.4

Spoken Here: Travels among threatened languages

by Mark Abley
Paperback, 2005
Tags
nonfiction, language, languages, endangered languages, tpb, check toc
Collection
Reviewed
Call number
417.7 21

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language

by David Crystal
Paperback, 1996
Tags
language, nonfiction, english language, tpb
Call number
420 22

They Have a Word for It: A lighthearted lexicon of untranslatable words and phrases

by Howard Rheingold
Paperback, 2000
Tags
nonfiction, language, words, tpb
Call number
413.1 19

Le Ton beau de Marot: In praise of the music of language

by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
nonfiction, translation, language, hb
Call number
418.02 21

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

by Steven Pinker
Hardcover, 1999
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, hb
Call number
415 21

The Language Instinct

by Steven Pinker
Paperback, 1995
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, tpb
Call number
400 20

The Mother Tongue: English & How it Got That Way

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1990
Tags
nonfiction, history, language, english language, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
420.9 20

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language

by David Crystal
Paperback, 1987
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language, tpb
Series
Cambridge Encyclopedia
Call number
403 20

Made in America

by Bill Bryson
Paperback, 1994
Tags
nonfiction, language, history, english language, tpb
Call number
420.973 20
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