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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 15 books in this booklist
£13.99 hardback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781803090719 | ISBN 10: 1803090715
With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.  Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer NgÅ©gÄ© wa Thiongâ ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781785788956 | ISBN 10: 1785788957
"Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really has discovered the whole world in an egg."(Simon Ga ... more
View book details£12.00 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781999803827 | ISBN 10: 1999803825
Local teacher, journalist and Irish language enthusiast, Tony Birtill, tells the fascinating history of the Irish language in Liverpool over the past 200 years and examines the Irish language vocabulary and speech patterns still in use in present day ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781408866139 | ISBN 10: 1408866137
In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivat ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780141984957 | ISBN 10: 0141984953
'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itsel ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781254172 | ISBN 10: 1781254176
Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us on an intriguing tour of the continent, from Proto-Indo-European ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848548886 | ISBN 10: 1848548885
From Alphabets to Zipcodes, the surprising story of our 26 letters from million-selling author and Radio 4 language expert, Michael Rosen. From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone wh ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781783160198 | ISBN 10: 1783160195
The existence of the Welsh-language can come as a surprise to those who assume that English is the foundation language of Britain. However, J. R. R. Tolkien described Welsh as the 'senior language of the men of Britain'. Visitors from outside Wales m ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846272622 | ISBN 10: 1846272629
'I took up with Hindi at a time when it seemed my life had buckled out from under me ... I no longer had the language to describe my own life. So I decided I'd borrow someone else's.' Having survived a serious illness and now at a ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719564550 | ISBN 10: 0719564557
Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and mar ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780199210770 | ISBN 10: 0199210772
Words, Words, Words is all about the wonder of words. Drawing on a lifetime's experience, David Crystal explores language in all its rich varieties through words: the very building blocks of our communication. Language has no life of its own: it only ... more
View book details£11.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780195312126 | ISBN 10: 0195312120
Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggers as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. Tie your tongue in knots trying to say such sesquipedalian words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Both witt ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781862078444 | ISBN 10: 1862078440
"Barry Kemp's take on the ancient Egyptians' script is as original as his whole approach to interpreting the complexities of their culture... this is both an invaluable reference work for students of hieroglyphs and essential reading for anyone wanti ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780099460220 | ISBN 10: 009946022x
Mark Abley's journeys among the speakers of languages at the brink take him to aboriginal Australia, to American Indian reservations and to elderly Canadian speakers of Yiddish, as well as to places where the languages are fighting back: Wales, the F ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780865435735 | ISBN 10: 0865435731
A name reflects and reinforces an identity both when it is given and when it is changed. African Muslim Names discusses the social and cultural significance of proper names. It explains how names are chosen for newborns in African societies and the v ... more
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