Conversational Style

Analyzing Talk among Friends
New Edition
$30.00
Paperback, Jun 2005
ISBN13: 9780195221817ISBN10: 0195221818
What can a Thanksgiving dinner conversation tell us about ourselves? Deborah Tannen revisits her hallmark in discourse analysis.


From the Kitchen to the Parlor

Language and Becoming in African American Women's Hair Care
$40.00
Paperback, Mar 2006
ISBN13: 9780195304169ISBN10: 0195304160
A lively, multi-sited linguistic ethnography of African American women's day-to-day experiences


The Social Art

Language and Its Uses
Second Edition
$24.99
Paperback, Jan 2006
ISBN13: 9780195187960ISBN10: 0195187962
A highly accessible and now thoroughly updated introduction to languages and what it is that linguists do


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“The most influential and seminal language book of the year” —William Safire

cover In Always On, Naomi S. Baron reveals that online andmobile technologies--including instant messaging, cell phones,multitasking, Facebook, blogs, and wikis—are profoundlyinfluencing how we read and write, speak and listen, but not in theways we might suppose.


“A new era in the historical study of English”  —David Crystal

cover The first historical thesaurus ever written —over 40 years in the making and covering 920,000+ words from Old English to the present— the HTOED is a groundbreaking view of the historical inventory of English.


Jewish tradition and biblical scholarship

cover Reflecting both contemporary biblical scholarship and the richness of Jewish tradition, The Jewish Study Bible provides an innovative one-volume resource specifically conceived readers of the Bible in mind.