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Now You're Talking(2019) COX, TREVORWe judge others – and whether we trust them – not just by their words but by the way they talk: their intonation, their pitch, their accent. Now You’re Talking explores the full range of our voice – how we speak and how we sing;Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
The First English Dictionary of Slang 1699(2015) GENT', 'B.E.The first work dedicated solely to the subject of slang words and their meanings, this book is a lost gem originally intended to educate the polite London classes in the parlance of thieves and ruffians, should they be so unlucky as to wander into the ‘wrVezava: Mehka13,89 € -
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: Mehka33,97 € -
I'm Just a Teenage Punchbag(2020) CLUNE, JACKIEBored and ignored wife and mother accidentally tells the truth; with hilarious and surprising results.Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
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: Mehka14,01 € -
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: Mehka15,41 € -
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 € -











