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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever By John McWhorter Cover Image
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever (Paperback) By John McWhorter $18.00
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Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism By Amanda Montell Cover Image
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover) By Amanda Montell $30.00
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language By Amanda Montell Cover Image
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Paperback) By Amanda Montell $21.99
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Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English By Valerie Fridland Cover Image
Like, Literally, Dude: Arguing for the Good in Bad English (Hardcover) By Valerie Fridland $30.00
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Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World By Maryanne Wolf Cover Image
Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (Paperback) By Maryanne Wolf $17.99
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For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun By Rebecca Roache Cover Image
For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing Is Shocking, Rude, and Fun (Hardcover) By Rebecca Roache $21.95
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The 5-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages By Caroline Myrick, Walt Wolfram Cover Image
The 5-Minute Linguist: Bite-Sized Essays on Language and Languages (Paperback) By Caroline Myrick, Walt Wolfram $28.92
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The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century By Rosemarie Ostler Cover Image
The United States of English: The American Language from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover) By Rosemarie Ostler $30.47
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The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases By Chloe O. Davis Cover Image
The Queens' English: The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases (Hardcover) By Chloe O. Davis $22.50
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Language In Thought And Action: Fifth Edition By S.I. Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa Cover Image
Language In Thought And Action: Fifth Edition (Paperback) By S.I. Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa $16.00
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language By John McWhorter Cover Image
The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language (Paperback) By John McWhorter $18.99
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Gullah Culture in America By Eric Crawford, Wilbur Cross, Emory Shaw Campbell (Introduction by) Cover Image
Gullah Culture in America (Paperback) By Eric Crawford, Wilbur Cross, Emory Shaw Campbell (Introduction by) $19.95
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'O Faia Fa'atumua O Samoa Mai Tala O Le Vavau (Nflrc Monographs) By 'Aumua Mata'itusi Simanu, Aumua Mataitusi Sima Papalii Cover Image
'O Faia Fa'atumua O Samoa Mai Tala O Le Vavau (Nflrc Monographs) (Paperback) By 'Aumua Mata'itusi Simanu, Aumua Mataitusi Sima Papalii $31.50
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Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy (Working and Writing for Change) By Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, Y'Shanda Young-Rivera Cover Image
Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy (Working and Writing for Change) (Paperback) By Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, Y'Shanda Young-Rivera $34.74
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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods By Michael Wex Cover Image
Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods (Paperback) By Michael Wex $17.99
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Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture By Verene A. Shepherd (Editor), Glen L. Richards (Editor) Cover Image
Questioning Creole: Creolisation Discourses in Caribbean Culture (Paperback) By Verene A. Shepherd (Editor), Glen L. Richards (Editor) $28.92
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How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish By Ilan Stavans (Editor), Josh Lambert (Editor) Cover Image
How Yiddish Changed America and How America Changed Yiddish (Paperback) By Ilan Stavans (Editor), Josh Lambert (Editor) $22.00
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On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume By Noam Chomsky, Mitsou Ronat Cover Image
On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume (Paperback) By Noam Chomsky, Mitsou Ronat $24.99
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How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-On-One Language Learning By Leanne Hinton, Matt Vera (With), Nancy Steele (With) Cover Image
How to Keep Your Language Alive: A Commonsense Approach to One-On-One Language Learning (Paperback) By Leanne Hinton, Matt Vera (With), Nancy Steele (With) $18.00
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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World By Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West Cover Image
Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World (Paperback) By Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West $20.00 Email or call for price
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective By Marcel Danesi Cover Image
Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective (Paperback) By Marcel Danesi $62.66
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Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhymedland Other Oddities of the English Language By Arika Okrent, Sean O'Neill (Illustrator) Cover Image
Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhymedland Other Oddities of the English Language (Hardcover) By Arika Okrent, Sean O'Neill (Illustrator) $21.99
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language By Amanda Montell Cover Image
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language (Hardcover) By Amanda Montell $26.99
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The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC By Jessica A. Grieser Cover Image
The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC (Hardcover) By Jessica A. Grieser $29.95
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Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self By Julie Sedivy Cover Image
Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self (Paperback) By Julie Sedivy $18.95
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English After Rp: Standard British Pronunciation Today By Geoff Lindsey Cover Image
English After Rp: Standard British Pronunciation Today (Paperback) By Geoff Lindsey $27.99
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The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated By Leo Rosten, Lawrence Bush (Revised by), Ro Blechman (Illustrator) Cover Image
The New Joys of Yiddish: Completely Updated (Paperback) By Leo Rosten, Lawrence Bush (Revised by), Ro Blechman (Illustrator) $22.00
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American Sign Language Dictionary-Flexi By Martin L. Sternberg Cover Image
American Sign Language Dictionary-Flexi (Abridged / Paperback) By Martin L. Sternberg $26.99 Email or call for price
Yiddish: Biography of a Language By Jeffrey Shandler Cover Image
Yiddish: Biography of a Language (Hardcover) By Jeffrey Shandler $42.83
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Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever By John McWhorter Cover Image
Nine Nasty Words: English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever (Hardcover) By John McWhorter $25.00
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How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio By Naomi Baron Cover Image
How We Read Now: Strategic Choices for Print, Screen, and Audio (Paperback) By Naomi Baron $27.71
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Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated By Leanne Hinton Cover Image
Flutes of Fire: An Introduction to Native California Languages Revised and Updated (Paperback) By Leanne Hinton $26.00
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Bringing Our Languages Home: Language Revitalization for Families By Leanne Hinton (Editor) Cover Image
Bringing Our Languages Home: Language Revitalization for Families (Paperback) By Leanne Hinton (Editor) $27.00
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Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally) By John McWhorter Cover Image
Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally) (Paperback) By John McWhorter $19.00
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Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy (Ncte-Routledge Research) By April Baker-Bell Cover Image
Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy (Ncte-Routledge Research) (Paperback) By April Baker-Bell $54.98
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Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Southern Classics) By Lorenzo Dow Turner, Katherine Wyly Mille (Introduction by), Michael B. Montgomery (Introduction by) Cover Image
Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (Southern Classics) (Paperback) By Lorenzo Dow Turner, Katherine Wyly Mille (Introduction by), Michael B. Montgomery (Introduction by) $31.49 Email or call for price
Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English By John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford Cover Image
Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English (Paperback) By John Russell Rickford, Russell John Rickford $17.95
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The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America By Barrett Holmes Pitner Cover Image
The Crime Without a Name: Ethnocide and the Erasure of Culture in America (Paperback) By Barrett Holmes Pitner $17.95
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The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews By Neal Karlen Cover Image
The Story of Yiddish: How a Mish-Mosh of Languages Saved the Jews (Paperback) By Neal Karlen $17.99
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Speaking Spanish in the Us: The Sociopolitics of Language (MM Textbooks #16) By Janet M. Fuller, Jennifer Leeman Cover Image
Speaking Spanish in the Us: The Sociopolitics of Language (MM Textbooks #16) (Paperback) By Janet M. Fuller, Jennifer Leeman $50.34
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Contact Languages and Music By Andrea Hollington (Editor), Joseph T. Farquharson (Editor), Byron M. Jones Jr (Editor) Cover Image
Contact Languages and Music (Paperback) By Andrea Hollington (Editor), Joseph T. Farquharson (Editor), Byron M. Jones Jr (Editor) $55.00
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Icelandic Heritage in North America By Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir (Editor), Höskuldur Thráinsson (Editor), Úlfar Bragason (Editor) Cover Image
Icelandic Heritage in North America (Paperback) By Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir (Editor), Höskuldur Thráinsson (Editor), Úlfar Bragason (Editor) $34.99
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I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World By Jag Bhalla Cover Image
I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears and Other Intriguing Idioms From Around the World (Paperback) By Jag Bhalla $13.95 Email or call for price
International Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca: Pedagogical Insights (International Perspectives on English Language Teaching) By Hugo Bowles (Editor), Alessia Cogo (Editor) Cover Image
International Perspectives on English as a Lingua Franca: Pedagogical Insights (International Perspectives on English Language Teaching) (Paperback) By Hugo Bowles (Editor), Alessia Cogo (Editor) $67.64
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The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure By Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Joseph Christopher Hill, Roxanne Dummett (Contributions by), Pamela Baldwin (Contributions by), Randall Hogue (Contributions by), Glenn B. Anderson (Foreword by) Cover Image
The Hidden Treasure of Black ASL: Its History and Structure (Paperback) By Carolyn McCaskill, Ceil Lucas, Robert Bayley, Joseph Christopher Hill, Roxanne Dummett (Contributions by), Pamela Baldwin (Contributions by), Randall Hogue (Contributions by), Glenn B. Anderson (Foreword by) $42.00 Email or call for price
Forms of Talk (Conduct and Communication) By Erving Goffman Cover Image
Forms of Talk (Conduct and Communication) (Paperback) By Erving Goffman $39.49
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Comunicazione Assertiva: Come Comunicare in Modo Efficace e Dare Inizio a Conversazioni Vincenti By Donato Trebbiani Cover Image
Comunicazione Assertiva: Come Comunicare in Modo Efficace e Dare Inizio a Conversazioni Vincenti (Paperback) By Donato Trebbiani $14.13 Email or call for price
Linguistics for Dummies By Rose-Marie Dechaine, Strang Burton, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson Cover Image
Linguistics for Dummies (Paperback) By Rose-Marie Dechaine, Strang Burton, Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson $19.99
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