Linguistics History

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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • Auteur(s): Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrateur(s): Kirsten Potter
    • Durée: 8 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-08-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
    • Auteur(s): Margalit Fox
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 7 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • This audiobook tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): David Crystal
    • Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
    • Série: Little Histories Series
    • Durée: 7 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-08-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Noam Chomsky, Anthony Arnove - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Stillwell
    • Durée: 22 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-02-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In a single volume, the seminal writings of the world's leading philosopher, linguist, and critic, published to coincide with his 80th birthday....

    Prix courant: 43,79$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Untold History of English
    • Auteur(s): John McWhorter
    • Narrateur(s): John McWhorter
    • Durée: 5 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-11-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 évaluations
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

    Prix courant: 26,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Language as a Window into Human Nature
    • Auteur(s): Steven Pinker
    • Narrateur(s): Dean Olsher
    • Durée: 9 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 évaluations
    • In The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker marries two of the subjects he knows best: language and human nature. The result is a fascinating look at how our words explain our nature....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns
    • Narrateur(s): Ken Burns
    • Durée: 6 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-09-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • The companion to Ken Burns’s magnificent PBS television series—updated and expanded to coincide with the broadcast of a new, two-part "Tenth Inning"....

    Prix courant: 16,32$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Delightful History of Food Language
    • Auteur(s): Judith Tschann
    • Narrateur(s): Alejandra Reynoso
    • Durée: 3 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Romaine Wasn’t Built in a Day, linguist Tschann takes us on a journey from the vineyards of Avignon to the shores of Tahiti to the port of Mocha on the Red Sea coast to explore the history of the history of the words we use for the food we eat....

    Prix courant: 19,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods
    • Auteur(s): Michael Wex
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Wex
    • Durée: 10 h et 22 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Michael Wex gives us a moving and inspiring portrait of a people, and a language, in exile....

    Prix courant: 29,13$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Brief History of Swearing
    • Auteur(s): Melissa Mohr
    • Narrateur(s): Napoleon Ryan
    • Durée: 10 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-07-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Almost everyone swears, or worries about not swearing, from the two year-old who has just discovered the power of potty mouth to the grandma who wonders why every other word she hears is obscene....

    Prix courant: 27,51$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • Auteur(s): Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 13 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-20
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Find out more....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
    • Auteur(s): Jing Tsu
    • Narrateur(s): Jing Tsu
    • Durée: 11 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world’s most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind....

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    • The Surprising Truth About Language
    • Auteur(s): David Shariatmadari
    • Narrateur(s): Damian Lynch
    • Durée: 8 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • An entertaining and highly informed guide to what languages are and how they function: 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....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
    • Auteur(s): Ross Perlin
    • Narrateur(s): Ross Perlin
    • Durée: 10 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-04-09
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever.

    Prix courant: 26,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Five Foods and the Culinary History of the English Language
    • Auteur(s): Ina Lipkowitz
    • Narrateur(s): Carolyn Cook
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • You may be what you eat, but you're also what you speak, and English food words tell a remarkable story about the evolution of our language and culinary history....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
    • Auteur(s): Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrateur(s): Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Durée: 8 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-09-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Smart as hell and funny as f--k, What the F is mandatory listening for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear....

    Prix courant: 31,16$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Hope and Redemption in Baseball's Longest Game
    • Auteur(s): Dan Barry
    • Narrateur(s): Dan Barry
    • Durée: 8 h et 36 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-04-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • What began as a modestly attended minor-league game became not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else entirely....

    Prix courant: 25,63$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Greg Harvey
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
    • Durée: 14 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-05-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • What you'll find in The Oigins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies is a basic guide to some of the possible linguistic and mythological origins of Middle-earth, plus a rudimentary analysis of its many themes and lessons for our world....

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