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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Language
English
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From over five thousand languages currently spoken, 400 languages and language groups (the major languages of the 21st century) have been selected for entry. Their history, their geography and the way they interact, and where possible inclusion of the numerals from 1 to ten are provided for each language.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
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Description
"Baron draws on a decade of research to provide an eye-opening look at language in an online and mobile world. She reveals for instance that email, IM, and text messaging have had surprisingly little impact on student writing. Electronic media has magnified the laid-back "whatever" attitude toward formal writing that young people everywhere have embraced, but it is not a cause of it. A more troubling trend, according to Baron, is the myriad ways in...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The search for the origin of human language has finally come of age. For centuries, progress in Ur-language research was slow and spasmodic; many scientists came to believe that there was no definitive way to answer its central questions. Then, in the past 20 years, everything changed. Linguist Kenneally shows how linguists, cognitive scientists, animal researchers, biologists, and geneticists have all contributed valuable new insights into language...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Taking readers on a rollicking ride through history, a master storyteller and reporter, whose legend began in journalism, presents a paradigm-shifting argument that speech, not evolution, is responsible for humanity's complex societies and achievements"--NoveList.
"Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages explores the history, geography, linguistics, and cultures that have been shaped by languages and their customs.
"English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Gaston Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 or so billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages....
Author
Series
Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs volume Volume 294
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Author
Series
Empirische Linguistik volume Band 6
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Deutsch
Series
Applications of cognitive linguistics volume Volume 31
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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