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Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A tour of the world's twenty most-spoken languages explores the history, geography, linguistics, and cultures that have been shaped by languages and their customs.
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out...
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Language is a wild thing. It is vague and anarchic. Style, meaning, and usage are continually on the move. Throughout history, for every mutation, idiosyncrasy, and ubiquitous mistake, there have been countervailing rules, pronouncements and systems making some attempt to bring language to heel. From the utopian language-builder to the stereotypical grammatical stickler to the programmer trying to teach a computer to translate, Lane Greene takes...
9) Wildspeak
Author
Publication Date
2026
Language
English
Description
Two young girls take a nature walk with their mother, making up their own words for the sights and sounds of the wild. Includes glossary.
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Everyone likes to think they know a bit about language: There are some words that you simply can't translate into English. The origin of a word tells you how it should be used. A dialect is inferior to a language. The problem is, none of these statements are true. In Don't Believe a Word, linguist David Shariatmadari explodes nine common myths about language and introduces us to some of the fundamental insights of modern linguistics. By the end of...
Author
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
Description
This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now.
"Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."
—The New York Times Book Review
Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence...
"Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."
—The New York Times Book Review
Bestselling author Steven Pinker possesses that rare combination of scientific aptitude and verbal eloquence...
19) Max's words
Author
Publication Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 0.5
Language
English
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
20) The hello atlas
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Publication Date
2016.
Language
Multiple
Description
Explore the languages of the world in this colorful atlas, which presents basic words and phrases from more than 100 different languages.