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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 6 books in this booklist
£18.95 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849352420 | ISBN 10: 1849352429
In Keywords (1976), Raymond Williams devised a "vocabulary" that reflected the vast social transformations of the post-war period. He revealed how these transformations could be grasped by investigating changes in word usage and meaning. Keywords for ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781907155185 | ISBN 10: 190715518x
The Trivium consists of three liberal arts pertaining to language. Grammar, logic and rhetoric have been studied for over two thousand years as a way of refining both a speaker and their speech. With extra sections on euphonics, poetic meter and form ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241967874 | ISBN 10: 0241967872
Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape ... more
View book details£9.99 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781782433088 | ISBN 10: 1782433082
Why are geese in a gaggle? Are crows really murderous? And what makes lions so proud? Collective nouns are one of the most charming oddities of the English language, often with seemingly bizarre connections to the groups they identify. But have you e ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780300170825 | ISBN 10: 0300170823
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. In this charming volume, a narrative history written explicitly for a youn ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780719564550 | ISBN 10: 0719564557
Communication is essential to our lives, but how often do we stop to think about where the words we use have come from? Have you ever thought about which words in English have been borrowed from Arabic, French or Dutch? Try admiral, landscape and mar ... more
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