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Featured Categories : Society, Politics & Philosophy : Social Sciences : Linguistics : Sociolinguistics

• Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language and Society

  Peter Trudgill

  
  
   

• You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

  Deborah Tannen

  
  
   

• The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?

  Deborah Cameron

  
  
   

• Geordie-English Glossary

  Percy Douglas

  
  
   

• Unspeak: Words are Weapons: Words Are Weapons

  Steven Poole

  
  
   

• Working with Spoken Discourse

  Deborah Cameron

  
  
   

• Speak: A Short History of Languages

  Tore Janson

  
  Tore Janson is a Swedish linguistic scholar who has studied and worked much in the USA. To the surprise of the sceptical, he manages to make the history of language interesting in Speak, a well written and solidly researched little book. He begins with a study of the most basic communication skills, proceeds to theorise how language developed and then traces written language and the fascinating family tree of linguistic development down through history and around the world to the present day pre-eminence of English. The book is complete with six maps tracing world linguistic development as well as helpful tables and charts that compare languages. Anyone who has taken an interest in language or has seriously tried to learn a foreign language will be interested.

  Maybe Oxford University Press have published Speak in an attempt to cash in on the ongoing enthusiasm for JRR Tolkien, philologist and Oxford don, by making linguistic history interesting and available to a wide audience. However, readers should not be deceived by the attractive cover, catchy title and small format. This is a serious, detailed study that will require some effort. That effort will be rewarded though with a greater appreciation and understanding for the unique human gift of language. --Dwight Longenecker

  
   

• That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Your Relations with Others

  Deborah Tannen

  
  
   

• Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

  Daniel Nettle, Suzanne Romaine

  
  
   

• The Secret Language of Art: The Illustrated Decoder of Symbols and Figures in Western Painting

  Sarah Carr-Gomm

  
  
   

• Scouse-English Glossary

  Fred Fazakerley

  
  
   

• Pragmatics (Oxford Introductions to Language Study)

  George Yule

  
  
   

• English in Modern Times: Augustan to Victorian (Hodder Arnold Publication)

  Joan C Beal

  
  
   

• An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Learning About Language)

  Janet Holmes

  
  
   

• Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage (Studies in Interactional Sociolinguistics)

  Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson

  
  
   

• Language and Culture

  Claire Kramsch

  
  
   

• Public Service Interpreting: The First Steps (Palgrave Textbooks in Translating and Interpreting)

  Corsellis A

  
  
   

• The Ascent of Babel: An Exploration of Language, Mind and Understanding

  Gerry T. M. Altmann

  
  
   

• Urban Voices: Accent Studies in the British Isles

  
  
   

• Multiculturalism: (Expanded paperback edition)

  Charles Taylor