Product Catalog

Linguistics & History Of Languages

Individual titles:

• Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin - by Nicholas Ostler
• American Slang 4th Edition - by Robert Chapman
• As They Say in Zanzibar:: Proverbial Wisdom From Around The World - by David Crystal
• Bastard Tongues: Trailblazing Linguist Finds Clues to Our Common Humanity - by Derek Bickerton
• By Hook or by Crook:: A Journey in Search of English
• Chinglish: Found in Translation - Offers a humorous and insightful look at misuses of the English language in Chinese street signs, products, and advertising.
• Divided by a Common Language:: A Guide to British and American English - by Christopher Davies
• Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language - In this provocative and compelling new work, the co-author of "The Story of English" shows how English became the language of the world.
• Going Dutch in Beijing:: How to Behave Properly When Far Away From Home - by Mark McCrum
• In Other Words:: A Language Lover's Guide to the Most Intriguing Words - A unique collection of well-known and absolutely obscure "untranslatables"--linguistic gems that convey a feeling or notion with satisfying precision yet resist simple translation.
• La Bella Lingua: My Love Affair with Italian, the World's Most Enchanting Lan - The story of how a language shaped a nation, told against the backdrop of one woman's personal quest to speak fluent Italian.
• The Meaning of Tingo And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World - A world tour of words that don't have a precise English equivalent but tell so much about other cultures' priorities and preoccupations.
• More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues - by Oliver Lutz Radtke
• One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost - edited by Peter K. Austin
• Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue - by John McWhorter
• Rotten English: A Literary Anthology - A global anthology of fiction and poetry in vernacular English.
• Signspotting II: The World's Most Absurd Signs - A round-up of the world's most perplexing signs and garbled messages
• Story of French - by Jean-Benoit Nadeau
• Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Languages - by Elizabeth Little