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The Emoji Code: The Linguistics Behind Smiley Faces and Scaredy Cats
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The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct
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2014
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8 editions
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Cognitive Linguistics: A Complete Guide
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2006
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6 editions
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The Babel Apocalypse (Songs of the Sage, #1)
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2023
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2 editions
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The End of Sleep
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The Crucible of Language
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published
2015
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5 editions
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A Glossary of Cognitive Linguistics
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2007
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7 editions
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Language and Time: A Cognitive Linguistics Approach
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2013
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7 editions
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The Cognitive Linguistics Reader
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2006
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4 editions
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The Structure of Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Cognition
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2004
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4 editions
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Why Biological Sex Is Not the Same as Gender
Prejudice based on a failure to appreciate the complexities of biological sex and the consequences of culture and language in shaping gender identities must be overcome.
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"The Pilot was a completely delightful story. I thought the preceding story in the series, The Final Season, was tremendous, and I am convinced that this one was funnier, deeper, and even more clever than its predecessor. Gillsmith seems a master of w"
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The Babel Apocalypse (Songs of the Sage, #1):
"This is an intriguing book with an all-too-real feel to the premise of technology gone wrong. I’ve often daydreamed about the ability to learn a new language without having to study…kind of a built-in universal translator, if you will. The thing abou"
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"I don’t even know where to begin with this smart, twisty, dystopian sci-fi story that has me asking so many questions about the real world I live in, and its potential for such a wild downfall (doesn’t seem that out of the question anymore). The sett"
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Remarkable and unique—Science fiction at its very best Our Lady of the Artilects is a high concept novel that asks the following ‘what if’ question: what if artificial intelligence could become possessed? The novel is set in the future, when global re ...more |
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“Language is the measure of
our lives, and what it means to be human.”
― The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct
our lives, and what it means to be human.”
― The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct
“English, like any other natural language, has two major communicative functions. The first is an ideational function: to get an idea across, as when I say, It’s raining, or I love you. It also has an interactive-interpersonal function: to influence the attitudes and behaviours of others, and, in a myriad ways, change an aspect of the world’s states of affairs in the process”
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“Language is the measure of
our lives, and what it means to be human.”
― The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct
our lives, and what it means to be human.”
― The Language Myth: Why Language Is Not an Instinct
