Tag search:linguistics

Babel: Around the world in twenty languages

by Gaston Dorren
Hardcover, 2018
Tags
linguistics, languages, hb
Call number
409

Because Internet: Understanding the new rules of language

by Gretchen McCulloch
Hardcover, 2019
Tags
linguistics, english language, internet language, take that prescriptivists, hb
Call number
302.231

Lingo: Around Europe in sixty languages

by Gaston Dorren
Hardcover, 2015
Tags
linguistics, languages, european languages, hb
Call number
410

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 Last Lingua Franca: English until the return of Babel

by Nicholas Ostler
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
linguistics, english language, linguas franca, hb
Collection
Previously Owned
Call number
420.9

Is That a Fish in your Ear? : The amazing adventure of translation

by David Bellos
Paperback, 2012
Tags
translation, linguistics, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
418.02

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

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 Last Speakers: The quest to save the world's most endangered languages

by K. David Harrison
Hardcover, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, endangered languages, hb
Call number
408.9

In the Land of Invented Languages: Adventures in linguistic creativity, madness, and genius

by Arika Okrent
Paperback, 2010
Tags
nonfiction, languages, linguistics, conlangs, tpb
Call number
499.99

Alpha beta: How 26 letters shaped the Western world

by John Man
Hardcover, 2000
Tags
history, linguistics, history of language, writing, hb
Call number
411.21

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

The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the future of English

by Mark Abley
Hardcover, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, language change, english, hb
Call number
420.9

Bastard Tongues: A trailblazing linguist finds clues to our common humanity in the world's lowliest languages

by Derek Bickerton
Paperback, 2009
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, creoles, tpb, coverguess mismatch
Call number
417.22

The First Word: The search for the origins of language

by Christine Kenneally
Paperback, 2008
Tags
nonfiction, linguistics, origin of language, tpb
Call number
400

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

Hellspark

by Janet Kagan
Paperback, 1998
Tags
science fiction, linguistics, first contact, tpb
Call number
813/.54 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 Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language

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