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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Florida

From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building

From master language creator David J. Peterson, creator of Game of Thrones' (HBO) Dothraki language, comes a creative guide to language construction. Peterson begins with a brief history of constructed languages, from Tolkien's creations to Klingon to the thriving global community of language construction. Then, using examples from a variety of languages including his own creations, Peterson offers a captivating and lucid overview, providing a basic foundation of essential linguistic tools for inventing and evolving one's own lexicon.

The Art of Language Invention

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Author signed copy. Read once. Some underlining in pencil throughout. #Greek #Greece #Travel #Mythology #hardcover #nonfiction #language #linguistics #adventure #grammar

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Adventures of the Comma Queen

Greek to Me - signed copy

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Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Ohio

Social Studies

Language Files 11th ed

California

Originally published in 1984, this dystopian trilogy--"a pioneering feminist experiment"--is a testament to the power of language and women's collective action (Literary Hub).

In 2205, the 19th Amendment has long been repealed and women are only valued for their utility. The Earth's economy depends on an insular group of linguists who "breed" women to be perfect interstellar translators until they are sent to the Barren House to await death. But instead, these women are slowly creating a language of their own to make resistance possible. Ignorant to this brewing revolution, Nazareth, a brilliant linguist, and Michaela, a servant, both seek emancipation in their own ways. But their personal rebellions risk exposing the secret language, and threaten the possibility of freedom for all.

"This angry feminist text is also an exemplary experiment in speculative fiction, deftly and implacably pursuing both a scientific hypothesis and an ideological hypothesis through all their social, moral, and emotional implications." --Ursula K. Le Guin

"A welcome reminder of the feminist legacies of science fiction. . . . Explores the power of speech, agency, and subversion in a work that is as gripping, troubling, and meaningful today as it has ever been." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Native Tongue

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A super fun dictionary full of terms and expressions from Medieval Europe. Beautiful hardcover edition with book jacket included (fully intact, no tears). #linguistics #medieval #europe #englishlanguage

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Minnesota

More than 4,000 Terms and Expressions from Medieval Culture

Medieval Wordbook

#linguistics
1989 version. Yellowed pages. Bent cover and pages. Possible slight water damage. Great subject and information. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Louisiana

English

It’s Structure and Use

Language

purchase brand new never opened never read in brand new condition.

"A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost unbroken series of aphorisms. . . . Kuhn does not permit truth to be a criterion of scientific theories, he would presumably not claim his own theory to be true. But if causing a revolution is the hallmark of a superior paradigm, [this book] has been a resounding success." --Nicholas Wade, Science
 
"Perhaps the best explanation of [the] process of discovery." --William Erwin Thompson, New York Times Book Review
 
"Occasionally there emerges a book which has an influence far beyond its originally intended audience. . . . Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . . . has clearly emerged as just such a work." --Ron Johnston, Times Higher Education Supplement
 
"Among the most influential academic books in this century." --Choice
 
One of "The Hundred Most Influential Books Since the Second World War," Times Literary Supplement
 

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

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Great book to read, especially if you consider yourself as one of those people who constantly criticize the grammar of others. Comes with the dust jacket. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A History of Linguistic Aggravation

The author of Reading the OED presents an eye-opening look at language “mistakes” and how they came to be accepted as correct—or not.

English is a glorious mess of a language, cobbled together from a wide variety of sources and syntaxes, and changing over time with popular usage. Many of the words and usages we embrace as standard and correct today were at first considered slang, impolite, or just plain wrong.

Whether you consider yourself a stickler, a nitpicker, or a rule-breaker in the know, Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary examples, the book chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes, and features some of our most common words and phrases, including:

Decimate
Hopefully
Enormity
That/which
Enervate/energize
Bemuse/amuse
Literally/figuratively
Ain’t Irregardless
Socialist
OMG
Stupider

Lively, surprising, funny, and delightfully readable, this is a book that will settle arguments among word lovers—and it’s sure to start a few, too.

Bad English

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Illinois

English And How It Got That Way

The Mother Tongue

the book is very crisp. there are some little brown specks on the top of the book but apart from that the book is like new!

A New York Review Books Original During the eighteenth century, from the death of Louis XIV until the Revolution, French culture set the standard for all of Europe. In Sweden, Austria, Italy, Spain, England, Russia, and Germany, among kings and queens, diplomats, military leaders, writers, aristocrats, and artists, French was the universal language of politics and intellectual life. In When the World Spoke French, Marc Fumaroli presents a gallery of portraits of Europeans and Americans who conversed and corresponded in French, along with excerpts from their letters or other writings. These men and women, despite their differences, were all irresistibly attracted to the ideal of human happiness inspired by the Enlightenment, whose capital was Paris and whose king was Voltaire. Whether they were in Paris or far away, speaking French connected them in spirit with all those who desired to emulate Parisian tastes, style of life, and social pleasures. Their stories are testaments to the appeal of that famous “sweetness of life” nourished by France and its language.

When the World Spoke French

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A History of English

This Language, A River is an introduction to the history of English that recognizes multiple varieties of the language in both current and historical contexts. Developed over years of undergraduate teaching, the book helps students to both grasp traditional histories of English, and also to extend and complicate those histories. Exercises throughout provide opportunities for puzzling out concepts, committing terms and data to memory, and applying ideas. A comprehensive glossary and up-to-date bibliographies help to guide further study.

This Language, a River

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Washington

A Novel

Originally published: London: William Heinemann, 2020.

The Liar's Dictionary

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#suspenseful #provocative #diaturbing #chilling #linguistics

Indiana

One of Entertainment Weekly's and SheReads' books to read after The Handmaid's Tale One of Good Morning America's "Best Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer" Set in a United States in which half the population has been silenced, Vox is the harrowing, unforgettable story of what one woman will do to protect herself and her daughter. On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning... Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves heard. ...not the end. For herself, her daughter, and every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice.

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A Dictionary of British Slang

An entertaining and informative compendium of "Britspeak" takes a close-up look at the colorful expressions, terms, and phrases of British slang, uncovering the origins and history, correct usage, and etymology of everything from "sweet as a nut" to "wanking chariot." Original.

Knickers in a Twist

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Cover has slight damage but book is in perfect condition. #hardcover #nonfiction #internet #culture #linguistics #language #writing #emoji

Virginia

Understanding the New Rules of Language 

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!! Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington Post A Wired Must-Read Book of Summer “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is like suddenly being able to see the matrix.” —Jonny Sun, author of everyone's a aliebn when ur a aliebn too Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities spread new slang and jargon with dizzying speed. What's more, social media is a vast laboratory of unedited, unfiltered words where we can watch language evolve in real time. Even the most absurd-looking slang has genuine patterns behind it. Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch explores the deep forces that shape human language and influence the way we communicate with one another. She explains how your first social internet experience influences whether you prefer "LOL" or "lol," why ~sparkly tildes~ succeeded where centuries of proposals for irony punctuation had failed, what emoji have in common with physical gestures, and how the artfully disarrayed language of animal memes like lolcats and doggo made them more likely to spread.

Because Internet

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New Mexico

Hand Signals of the North American Indians

-Hand Signals of the American Indians by Iron Eyes Cody, a well-known television actor. This is an easily understood guide to the silent language developed by the Plains tribes. The hand signals are demonstrated by the author & his wife in photographs that show how to converse without saying a word. For countless centuries it was used among the tribes & in later years with traders & travelers.

Indian Talk

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From the back cover: 


American English Grammar introduces students to American English in detail, from parts of speech, phrases, and clauses to punctuation and explaining (and debunking) numerous "rules of correctness, integrating its discussion of Standard American grammar with thorough coverage of the past sixty years' worth of work on African American English and other ethnic and regional non-Standard varieties. The book's examples and exercises include 500 real-world sentences and longer texts, drawn from newspapers, film, song lyrics, and online media as well as from Mark Twain, Stephen King, academic texts, translations of the Bible, poetry, drama, children's literature, and transcribed conversation and TV and radio shows. Based on twenty years of classroom testing and revision, American English Grammar will serve as a classroom text or reference that teaches students how to think and talk not only about the mechanics of sentences but also about the deep and detailed soul and nuance of the most widely used language in human history.

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I donate all money made from these book sales to local non-profits (SE Pennsylvania) that help people facing a wide range of crises. 

An Introduction

American English Grammar

i got this textbook for a class and never used it lol. bought secondhand so there are some notes from previous students, hut overall in hood condition :)

Tennessee

An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology

Accessible and clearly written, Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology introduces readers to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world through the contemporary theory and practice of linguistic anthropology.
 * A highly accessible introduction to the study of language in real-life social contexts around the world
 * Combines classic studies on language and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship and assumes no prior knowledge in linguistics or anthropology
 * Provides a unifying synthesis of current research and considers future directions for the field
 * Covers key topics such as: language and gender, race, and ethnicity; language acquisition and socialization in children and adults; language death and revitalization; performance; language and thought; literacy practices; and multilingualism and globalization

Living Language

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South Carolina

A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English

Anu Garg's many readers await their A Word A Day rations hungrily. Now at last here's a feast for them and other verbivores. Eat up!
-Barbara Wallraff
Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly and author of Word Court

Praise for A Word a Day

""AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories. The people who use them have curious stories to tell too, and this collection incorporates some of the correspondence received by the editors at the AWAD site, from advice on how to outsmart your opponent in a duel (or even a truel) to a cluster of your favorite mondegreens.""
-John Simpson, Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary

""A banquet of words! Feast and be nourished!""
-Richard Lederer, author of The Miracle of Language

Written by the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (www.wordsmith.org), this collection of unusual, obscure, and exotic English words will delight writers, scholars, crossword puzzlers, and word buffs of every ilk. The words are grouped in intriguing categories that range from ""Portmanteaux"" to ""Words That Make the Spell-Checker Ineffective."" each entry includes a concise definition, etymology, and usage example-and many feature fascinating and hilarious commentaries by A Word A Day subscribers and the authors.

A Word a Day

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Wisconsin

Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages

A New York Times Editor's Choice An Economist Best Book of 2010 A Financial Times Best Book of 2010 A Library Journal Best Book of 2010 The debate is ages old: Where does language come from? Is it an artifact of our culture or written in our very DNA? In recent years, the leading linguists have seemingly settled the issue: all languages are fundamentally the same and the particular language we speak does not shape our thinking in any significant way. Guy Deutscher says they're wrong. From Homer to Darwin, from Yale to the Amazon, and through a strange and dazzling history of the color blue, Deutscher argues that our mother tongues do indeed shape our experiences of the world. Audacious, delightful, and provocative, Through the Language Glass is destined to become a classic of intellectual discovery.

Through the Language Glass

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#linguistics #Vygotsky #classic #foundational 

A new edition of a foundational work of cognitive science that outlines a theory of the development of specifically human higher mental functions.Since it was introduced to the English-speaking world in 1962, Lev Vygotsky's Thought and Language has become recognized as a classic foundational work of cognitive science. Its 1962 English translation must certainly be considered one of the most important and influential books ever published by the MIT Press. In this highly original exploration of human mental development, Vygotsky analyzes the relationship between words and consciousness, arguing that speech is social in its origins and that only as children develop does it become internalized verbal thought.
In 1986, the MIT Press published a new edition of the original translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar, edited by Vygotsky scholar Alex Kozulin, that restored the work's complete text and added materials to help readers better understand Vygotsky's thought. Kozulin also contributed an introductory essay that offered new insight into Vygotsky's life, intellectual milieu, and research methods. This expanded edition offers Vygotsky's text, Kozulin's essay, a subject index, and a new foreword by Kozulin that maps the ever-growing influence of Vygotsky's ideas.


Thought and Language, Revised and Expanded Edition

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Published 1971; Far East Book Co., Taiwan

New Jersey

A New Practical Chinese-English Dictionary

Hardcover in good condition. Dust jacket had some marks on it and pages are slightly yellow. This books goes over the science of reading, spanning cognitive science, neurobiology, and linguistics. 

World Languages

How We Read, Why So Many Can't, and What Can Be Done about It

In this "important and alarming" book, see why so many American students are falling behind in their reading skills while others around the world excel (New York Times).


In 2011, when an international survey reported that students in Shanghai dramatically outperformed American students in reading, math, and science, President Obama declared it a "Sputnik moment": a wake-up call about the dismal state of American education. Little has changed, however, since then: over half of our children still read at a basic level and few become highly proficient. Many American children and adults are not functionally literate, with serious consequences. Poor readers are more likely to drop out of the educational system and as adults are unable to fully participate in the workforce, adequately manage their own health care, or advance their children's education.

In Language at the Speed of Sight, internationally renowned cognitive scientist Mark Seidenberg reveals the underexplored science of reading, which spans cognitive science, neurobiology, and linguistics. As Seidenberg shows, the disconnect between science and education is a major factor in America's chronic underachievement. How we teach reading places many children at risk of failure, discriminates against poorer kids, and discourages even those who could have become more successful readers. Children aren't taught basic print skills because educators cling to the disproved theory that good readers guess the words in texts, a strategy that encourages skimming instead of close reading. Interventions for children with reading disabilities are delayed because parents are mistakenly told their kids will catch up if they work harder. Learning to read is more difficult for children who speak a minority dialect in the home, but that is not reflected in classroom practices. By building on science's insights, we can improve how our children read, and take real steps toward solving the inequality that illiteracy breeds.

Both an expert look at our relationship with the written word and a rousing call to action, Language at the Speed of Sight is essential for parents, educators, policy makers, and all others who want to understand why so many fail to read, and how to change that.


David J. Peterson

The Art of Language Invention

Mary Norris

Greek to Me - signed copy

The Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University

Language Files 11th ed

Suzette Haden Elgin; Leni Zumas (Foreword by)

Native Tongue

Madeleine Pelner Cosman

Medieval Wordbook

Edward Finegan and Niko Besnier

Language

Thomas S. Kuhn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Ammon Shea

Bad English

Bill Bryson

The Mother Tongue

Marc Fumaroli

When the World Spoke French

K. Aaron Smith; Susan M. Kim

This Language, a River

Eley Williams

The Liar's Dictionary

Christina Dalcher

Vox

Jonathan Bernstein

Knickers in a Twist

Gretchen McCulloch

Because Internet

Iron Eyes Cody (Illustrator)

Indian Talk

Ammon Shea

Bad English

Seth R. Katz

American English Grammar

Laura M. Ahearn

Living Language

Anu Garg; Suti Garg (As told to)

A Word a Day

Guy Deutscher

Through the Language Glass

Lev S. Vygotsky; Alex Kozulin (Foreword by)

Thought and Language, Revised and Expanded Edition

Liang Shih-Chiu

A New Practical Chinese-English Dictionary

Mark Seidenberg

Language at the Speed of Sight