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How Language Works
de Crystal, David
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- ISBN 10
- 0140515380
- ISBN 13
- 9780140515381
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Daw Park, South Australia, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
London: Penguin Allen Lane. 2005. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx].Near Fine copy in Very Good dustjacket. Dustjacket is now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 500 pages. How babies babble, words change meaning and languages live or die.... . 1st Edition. Hardback.
Sinopsis
Steven Pinker meets Bill Bryson in this landmark exploration of language. In the author's own words, " How Language Works is not about music, cookery, or sex. But it is about how we talk about music, cookery, and sex-or, indeed, anything at all." Language is so fundamental to everyday life that we take it for granted. But as David Crystal makes clear in this work of unprecedented scope, language is an extremely powerful tool that defines the human species. Crystal offers general readers a personal tour of the intricate workings of language. He moves effortlessly from big subjects like the origins of languages, how children learn to speak, and how conversation works to subtle but revealing points such as how email differs from both speech and writing in important ways, how language reveals a person's social status, and how we decide whether a word is rude or polite. Broad and deep, but with a light and witty touch, How Language Works is the ultimate layman's guide to how we communicate with one another.
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- Librería
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- BIB215629
- Título
- How Language Works
- Autor
- Crystal, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Estado del libro
- Usado -
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0140515380
- ISBN 13
- 9780140515381
- Editorial
- Penguin Allen Lane
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Catálogos del vendedor
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Adelaide Booksellers
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Daw Park, South Australia
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Antiquarian and Secondhand Bookseller. Member ANZAAB.Founded in 1979, Adelaide Booksellers is one of Adelaide's oldest and most respected secondhand and antiquarian booksellers. Members of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Antiquarian Booksellers [ANZAAB]. Has Adelaide's most comprehensive selection of book on military history. Also a very good range of Australiana books, Childrens's Books, Art and History books.Something for every budget. Now primarily an online/telephone seller but open to the public by arrangement.
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