Linguistics

Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts

'Ferrara’s book is an introduction to writing as a process of revelation, but it’s also a celebratio...

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€25.00

Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction

Poststructuralism challenges traditional ways of thinking about human beings and our relation to the...

€11.00

The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language

'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever r...

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€14.00

The Dawn of Language: The Story of How We Came to Talk

“A model of popular-science writing” STEVEN POOLEWho was “the first speaker” and what was their firs...

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€16.00

Changing Names: Tradition and Innovation in Ancient Greek Onomastics

Changing Names investigates, in relation to the ancient Greek world, the ways in which preferences i...

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€84.50

Neurolinguistics (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series)

An accessible introduction to the study of language in the brain, covering language processing, lang...

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€16.90

The Secrets of Words

Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising fact...

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€18.30

Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions

An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes o...

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€32.50

It's All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories

Most of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Greek...

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€16.40

How We Understand Mathematics: Conceptual Integration in the Language of Mathematical Description

This volume examines mathematics as a product of the human mind and analyzes the language of "pure m...

€81.20

Greek Language, Italian Landscape: Griko and the Re-Storying of a Linguistic Minority

Greek Language, Italian Landscape traces the transformation of language ideologies and practices of...

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€23.60

Particles in Ancient Greek Discourse: Exploring Particle Use Across Genres

The study of ancient Greek particles has been an integral part of the study of the Greek language fr...

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€35.70

Dostoyevsky, or The Flood of Language

Growing up in Bulgaria, Julia Kristeva was warned by her father not to read Dostoyevsky. “Of course,...

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€18.90

The Dawn of Language: How We Came to Talk

“A model of popular-science writing” STEVEN POOLE“Magisterial . . . [A] detective story of the deep...

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€21.80

From Signal to Symbol: The Evolution of Language

A novel account of the evolution of language and the cognitive capacities on which language depends....

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€37.70

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