Linguistics

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

'[An] astonishing book' Sunday TimesWhat do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian v...

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€18.90

The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight...

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€13.80

Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen

The beloved Comma Queen returns with a buoyant and charming book about language, love and the wine-d...

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€12.00

Kingdom of Characters: A Tale of Language, Obsession, and Genius in Modern China

A riveting, masterfully researched account of the bold innovators who adapted the Chinese language t...

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€13.80

What It All Means: Semantics for (Almost) Everything

How meaning works—from monkey calls to human language, from spoken language to sign language, from g...

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€33.90

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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€24.00

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