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The English Language: A Very Short Introduction
Simon Horobin
The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the language used today? The English ...
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Languages: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Anderson
Languages: A Very Short Introduction addresses questions such as: How many languages are there? What differentiates one language from another? Are new languages still being ...
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Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction
P. H. Matthews
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction considers a subject that falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which fascinating discoveries and important problems ...
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Multilingualism: A Very Short Introduction
John C. Maher
Multilingualism—language diversity in society—is a perfect expression of human plurality. About 6,500–7,000 languages are spoken, written, and signed, throughout the linguistic landscape of ...
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Slang: A Very Short Introduction
Jonathon Green
Slang, however one judges it, shows us at our most human. It is used widely and often, typically associated with the writers of noir fiction, teenagers, and rappers, but also found in the ...
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Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction
John Edwards
Sociolinguistics: A Very Short Introduction deals with the social life of language: language in its sociocultural context. It draws from sociolinguistics, the sociology of ...
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Translation: A Very Short Introduction
Matthew Reynolds
Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn’t only give us foreign news, dubbed films, and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no ...
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Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction
Andrew Robinson
Writing and Script: A Very Short Introduction explains how early forms of writing developed into hundreds of scripts including the Roman alphabet and Chinese characters. ...
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