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The Jeffersons - A fresh look back featuring episodic insights, interviews, a peek behind-the-scenes, and photos (hardback)
ISBN: 9781629339511 / Twarda / 2022 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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171,22 zł |
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
ISBN: 9780593423066 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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122,30 zł |
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The Creole Debate
ISBN: 9781108450836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.
A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and c...
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105,66 zł |
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Doing Our Own Thing : The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care
ISBN: 9780099445357 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Once languages become written, they change. This work argues that the 1960's rejection of cultural traits associated with the Establishment, as well as a democratic celebration of what anyone can do over what requires training or talent, has led to our cul
Once languages become written, they change. This work argues that the 1960's rejection of cultural traits associated with the Establishment, as well a...
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88,32 zł |
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The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language
ISBN: 9780060520854 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago. While laying out how languages mix and mutate over time, linguistics professor John McWhorter reminds us of the variety within the species that speaks them, and argues that, contrary to popular perception, language is not immutable and hidebound, but a living, dynamic entity that adapts itself to an ever-changing human environment. Full of humor and imaginative insight, The Power of Babel draws its illustrative examples from... There are approximately six thousand languages on Earth today, each a descendant of the tongue first spoken by Homo sapiens some 150,000 years ago.... |
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82,95 zł |
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Language Interrupted: Signs of Non-Native Acquisition in Standard Language Grammars
ISBN: 9780195309805 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak is conjugated hablo, hablas, hablamos), and gender for nouns, whereas English is more straight forward (I speak, you speak, we speak). But linguists generally swat down claims that certain languages are "easier" than others, since it is assumed all languages are complex to the same degree. For example, they will point to English's use of the word "do" -- Do you know French? This usage is counter-intuitive and difficult for...
Foreigners often say that English language is "easy." A language like Spanish is challenging in its variety of verb endings (the verb speak i...
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418,87 zł |
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Defining Creole
ISBN: 9780195166699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entailing adults rapidly acquiring a language usually under conditions of subordination, but that structurally they are indistinguishable from other languages. The articles by John H. McWhorter collected in this volume demonstrate that this is in fact untrue. Creole languages, while complex and nuanced as all human languages are, are delineable from older languages as the result of their having come into existence only a few centuries ago. Then...
A conventional wisdom among creolists is that creole is a sociohistorical term only: that creole languages share a particular history entaili...
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319,45 zł |
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The Creole Debate
ISBN: 9781108428644 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and change.
A compelling argument for why creoles are their own unique entity, which have developed independently of other processes of language development and c...
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254,84 zł |
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What Language Is: And What It Isn't and What It Could Be
ISBN: 9781592407200 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct grammar
An eye-opening tour for all language lovers, What Language Is offers a fascinating new perspective on the way humans communicate. from vanishing languages spoken by a few hundred people to major tongues like Chinese, and with copious revelations about the hodgepodge nature of English, John McWhorter shows readers how to see and hear languages as a linguist does.Packed with big ideas about language alongside wonderful trivia, What Language Is explains how... A love letter to languages, celebrating their curiosities and smashing assumptions about correct grammar
An eye-opening tour for all langua... |
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104,83 zł |
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Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
ISBN: 9780738204468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing--not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' meanings as well. Debunking the myth of "pure" standard English, tackling controversial positions, and eschewing politically correct arguments, linguist John McWhorter considers speech patterns and regional accents to demonstrate just how the changes do occur. Wielding reason and humor, McWhorter ultimately explains why we must embrace these changes, ultimately revealing our American English in all its variety, expressiveness, and power.
Though there is a contingent of linguists who fight the fact, our language is always changing--not only through slang, but sound, syntax, and words' m...
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140,77 zł |
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Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths About America's Lingua Franca
ISBN: 9781942658580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it matters-now in paperback!
An authoritative, impassioned celebration of Black English, how it works, and why it matters-now in paperback!
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67,22 zł |
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English
ISBN: 9781592404940 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Language distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history. Covering such turning points as the little-known Celtic and Welsh influences on English, the impact of the Viking raids and the Norman Conquest, and the Germanic... A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar
Why do we say "I am reading a ... |
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74,26 zł |
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Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America
ISBN: 9780060935931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. Now he dares to say the unsayable: racism's ugliest legacy is the disease of defeatism that has infected black America. Losing the Race explores the three main components of this cultural virus: the cults of victimology, separatism, and antiintellectualism that are making blacks their own worst enemies in the struggle for success. More angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more... Berkeley linguistics professor John McWhorter, born at the dawn of the post-Civil Rights era, spent years trying to make sense of this question. No... |
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78,58 zł |
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Nine Nasty Words
ISBN: 9780593421383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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78,62 zł |
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The Language Hoax
ISBN: 9780190468897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think?
This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John McWhorter argues that while this idea is mesmerizing, it is plainly wrong. It is language that reflects culture and worldview, not the other way around. The fact that a language has only one word... Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these c...
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74,17 zł |
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The Missing Spanish Creoles: Recovering the Birth of Plantation Contact Languages
ISBN: 9780520219991 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of data--linguistic, sociolinguistic, historical--he proposes that the "limited access model" of creole genesis is seriously flawed. That model maintains that plantation creole languages emerged because African slaves greatly outnumbered whites on colonial plantations. Having little access to the slaveholders' European languages, the slaves were forced to build a new language from what fragments they did acquire. Not so, says McWhorter, who posits...
John McWhorter challenges an enduring paradigm among linguists in this provocative exploration of the origins of plantation creoles. Using a wealth of...
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292,72 zł |
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America
ISBN: 9781800751446 / Miękka / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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62,04 zł |
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Linguistic Simplicity and Complexity: Why Do Languages Undress?
ISBN: 9781934078396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In John McWhorter s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole languages are definable not just in the sociohistorical sense, but in the grammatical sense. His publicationssince the 1990s have argued that all languages of the world that lack a certain three traits together are creoles (i.e. born as pidgins a few hundred years ago and fleshed out into real languages). He also argued that in light of their pidgin birth, such languages are less grammatically complex than others, as the result of their recent birth as...
In John McWhorter s Defining Creole anthology of 2005, his collected articles conveyed the following theme: His hypothesis that creole language...
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130,85 zł |
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The Language Hoax
ISBN: 9780199361588 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This short, opinionated book addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world. Linguist John McWhorter argues that while this idea is mesmerizing, it is plainly wrong. It is language that reflects culture and worldview, not the other way around. The fact that a language has only one word for...
Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these c...
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98,21 zł |
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Die Erwählten
ISBN: 9783455012996 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Eine neue Religion spaltet die Gesellschaft unter dem Deckmantel des Antirassismus. Über dieses Buch spricht ganz Amerika: Der Schwarze Sprachwissenschaftler John McWhorter prangert eine Bewegung von selbsternannten Erwählten an, die mit allen Regeln der Vernunft bricht und die soziale Gemeinschaft gefährdet. Die Debatte um Identität ist entgleist. Nicht nur in den USA, auch in Europa und in Deutschland steht die Frage im Raum: Wie konnte es so weit kommen? John McWhorter wendet sich der treibenden Kraft dieser Entwicklung zu: einer neuen Bewegung von... Eine neue Religion spaltet die Gesellschaft unter dem Deckmantel des Antirassismus. Über dieses Buch spricht ganz Amerika: ... |
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64,39 zł |
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