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Paul Baker Explores the complex role that language plays in the construction of sexuality and gender, two concepts that are often discussed separately, although in practice are closely intertwined. This book draws... | Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth; Selting,... These essays study the role of prosody in everyday English, German, and Italian conversation. |
Glenn Dixon A work about language, about the words that splash and chatter across our tongues. | Robert McCrum Including information about English language, culture, history and power, this title traces the way that the English language as twisted and turned in response to the way the world has... |
| Steven Pinker Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we... |
Daniel Everett Like other tools, language was invented, can be reinvented or lost, and shows significant variation across cultures. It's as essential to survival as fire - and, like fire, is found... | Charlie Croker Has your doctor ever prescribed you some bug-juice? Or sent you to rheuma holiday department? Have you ever read an article full of anecdata or review phemisms? Do you think... |
Umberto Eco; William Weaver The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions. | |
Bruce Moore At last the real stories behind some of Australia's unique and best-loved words are now ready to be told. A companion volume to Bruce Moore's highly-successful Speaking Our Language... | |
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Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky's book is a serious attempt to construct within the tradition of scientific theory-construction a comprehensive theory of language which may be understood in the same sense that a... | Chloe Rhodes Many of the popular, often prophetic, phrases that we use on a day-to-day basis have their roots in traditional folklore. This book is filled with sayings, legends and proverbs derived... |