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Sociolinguistic History of Scotland(2022) MILLAR, ROBERT MCCOLL (READER IN LINGUISTICS, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN)Robert McColl Millar examines how language has been used in Scotland since the earliest times. While primarily focusing on the histories of the speakers of Scots and Gaelic, and their competition with the encroaching use of (Scottish) Standard English, heVezava: Mehka35,51 € -
I'm Just a Teenage Punchbag(2020) CLUNE, JACKIEBored and ignored wife and mother accidentally tells the truth; with hilarious and surprising results.Vezava: Trda16,03 € -
Place For Everything(2020) FLANDERS, JUDITHA celebration of the alphabet, from its beginnings to its pre-eminence as the organizing principle for the world's knowledge.Vezava: Trda23,82 € -
Fabulosa!(2020) BAKER, PAULPaul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, humour and tenderness.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Signs of Civilisation(2020) MICHALSEN, BARD BORCHSigns of Civilisation provides an account of the rich cultural history of punctuation.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Dent's Modern Tribes(2017) DENT, SUSIELearn how to decode the private languages that are swapped around us every day - amongst cabbies and paramedics, soap stars and comedians, cricketers and barristers - in Susie Dent's unique and witty guide to Britain's modern tribes.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Queens' English(2021) DAVIS, CHLOE O.A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary featuring more than 800 terms created by and for queer culture. With a foreword from Paula Akpan Do you know wVezava: Trda23,82 € -
Cornwall in the Age of Rebellion, 1490–1690(2021)This book brings together a number of specialist scholarly articles published previously in the series Cornish Studies, and presents them in revised form as a history of Cornwall in the early modern period, focusing especially on issues of language, identVezava: Trda123,05 € -
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Xu Bing(2020) BING, XUMonograph focusing on Xu Bing's most ambitious works of art: Book from the Sky and Book from the GroundVezava: Trda42,06 € -
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English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice(2017) CARLEY, PAUL (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, UK),MEES, INGER M. (COPENHAGEN BUSINESS SCHOOL, DENMARK)Practical English Pronunciation provides an introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of English. Built around a collection of graded practice materials, this book teaches the pronunciation of modern standard non-regional British English tVezava: Mehka70,32 € -
How to Talk Like a Local(2011) DENT, SUSIEFrom dardledumdue, which means daydreamer in East Anglia, through forkin robbins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, this title investigates an astonishingly rich variety of regional expressions, and provides inVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Two Girls, One on Each Knee(2014) CONNOR, ALANIn the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes and conventions of which are open to anyone masochistic enough to get addicted. This book celebrates the witVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Emoji Revolution(2019) SEARGEANT, PHILIPIdeal for general readers as well as students and researchers of language, linguistics and communication, this book examines the evolution of emoji, how people use them, and what they can teach us about the nature of language, as well as our relationshipsVezava: Mehka55,13 € -
Mysteries of English Grammar(2021) CALUDE, ANDREEA S.,BAUER, LAURIEThis book illuminates some of the complexities of the grammar of English, the areas where new discoveries await and why it matters. Both aimed at the interested general reader and the beginning student of English language and linguistics, this is a freshVezava: Mehka53,21 € -
Latin inscriptions(2016) BOOMS, DIRKIllustrated with the best examples of inscriptions from the British Museum's Roman collection, this book explores the meaning of putting up public inscriptions and the standardised system of abbreviation that was used to ensure Romans from all areas of thVezava: Mehka18,21 €











