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Paperback. This book traces the development of English slang from the earliest records to the latest tweet and explores why and how slang is used. Based on inside information from real live slang users as well as the best scholarly sources, this book is guaranteed to teach you some new words that you shouldn't use in polite company. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFFD; DS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199679171
- ISBN
- 9780199679171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.15
€ 29.15
Hardback. This timely book is the first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an indigenous Canadian language spoken in British Columbia, now threatened with extinction. Series: First Nations Language Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white line drawings, maps, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2JN; CFH; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774806251
- ISBN
- 9780774806251
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 158.18
€ 158.18
Hardback. A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; C; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349921
- ISBN
- 9780822349921
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.90
€ 122.90
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253208699
- ISBN
- 9780253208699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.15
€ 33.15
Hardback. This book presents a sociolinguistic ethnography of the linguistic landscape of Chinatown in Washington, DC. The book sheds new light on the impact of urban development on traditionally ethnic neighbourhoods and discusses the various historical, social and cultural factors that contribute to this area's shifting linguistic landscape. Series: Encounters. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; CFB; CFDM; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Channel View Publications Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783095629
- ISBN
- 9781783095629
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 159.61
€ 159.61
Hardcover. Editor(s): Mailhammer, Robert; Vennemann, Theo; Olsen, Birgit Anette. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 2A; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 437 x 247 x 27. Weight in Grams: 842.
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788763542098
- ISBN
- 9788763542098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.40€ 57.91
€ 74.40
€ 57.91
Paperback. Editor(s): Rorty, Richard. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226725697
- ISBN
- 9780226725697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.52
€ 40.99
€ 31.52
Paperback. Brings thinking about semantics to bear on the question of how, and how much, language corresponds to thought. This title argues that lying is a function not of words but of sentences; it belongs to the semantic aspect of language. It forges links between linguistic and literary categories on the one hand and ethics and good manners on the other. Translator(s): Churchill, Larry R.; Brown, Jane K.; Brown, Marshall. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; DSA; GTE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 4522 x 3226 x 10. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Edition
- Translation
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295985497
- ISBN
- 9780295985497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
Hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: CF. Dimension: 232 x 159. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Center for the Study of Language and Inf
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780937073476
- ISBN
- 9780937073476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 41.09
€ 52.99
€ 41.09
Paperback. Mark Turner makes the revolutionary claim that the basic issue for cognitive science is the nature of literary thinking. Using tools of modern linguistics, the recent work of neuroscientists, and literary masterpieces from Shakespeare, Homer, and Dante, Turner explains how story and projection are fundamental to everyday thought. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 198
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195126679
- ISBN
- 9780195126679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.53
€ 31.53
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 13th Global ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781292099477
- ISBN
- 9781292099477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.02
€ 83.02
Hardback. The Logic of Metaphor uses techniques from possible worlds semantics to provide formal truth-conditions for many grammatical classes of metaphors. This book treats lexicon as a conceptual network with semantics provided by an intensional predicate calculus. It shows how to extend deductive and adductive inference systems so as to handle metaphors. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792370048
- ISBN
- 9780792370048
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.56
€ 126.56
Paperback. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; CFX; HPL; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789048157129
- ISBN
- 9789048157129
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 122.12
€ 122.12
The Logic of Our Language. An Introduction to Symbolic Logic.
Jackson, Rodger L.; McLeod, Melanie L.
Paperback. A book that lays bare the underlying logic of the English language. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 185 x 19. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554811847
- ISBN
- 9781554811847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 58.04€ 45.56
€ 58.04
€ 45.56
Hardcover. The work written by the noted American linguist two decades ago explains the basic principles of transformational generative grammar, its relation to the general structure of an adequate language theory, and its specific application to English. Num Pages: 598 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: CF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2250.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Edition
- 1975th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306307607
- ISBN
- 9780306307607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 295.91
€ 295.91
Hardback. This work engages on a theoretical level with issues in semiotics generally, taking Peirce's writings as a case study through which to investigate the adequacy of a theory of signs to account for the way "talk" works. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: CFG; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804747394
- ISBN
- 9780804747394
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 183.25
€ 183.25
Paperback. The twentieth century was the magazine century in many ways. Between 1900 and 2000, the number of magazines grew from about 3,000 to 17,815 - a 593 percent increase, which exceeded population growth by 95 percent. This book shows how the growth of advertising enabled the cost of magazines to steadily decline. Series: Mediating American History. Num Pages: 242 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CBWJ; GTC; HB; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- First printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433104930
- ISBN
- 9781433104930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.14
€ 51.14
Hardback. This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing extensively on archival and other sources, it traces the conception of the idea of the Dictionary in the 1850s right up to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; CFB; CFM; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199283620
- ISBN
- 9780199283620
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.57
€ 87.57
Hardback. This work deals with a number of constructions in Mandarin Chinese which involve the main verb and the material following it, like the object NPs, resultative phrases, durative expressions and other elements. Series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. Num Pages: 233 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDCM; CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1180.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780792354628
- ISBN
- 9780792354628
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.49
€ 126.49
Hardcover. The completely revised and updated edition contains more than 8,000 terms relating to food ingredients, cooking styles, preparation techniques, utensils, and types of culinary service. Clear and concise definitions, word origins, and simple phonetic pronunciations make this an invaluable resource for food and beverage professionals. Num Pages: 464 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CBD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471287568
- ISBN
- 9780471287568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 90.05€ 74.67
€ 90.05
€ 74.67