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Vyvyan Evans
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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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7 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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3 editions
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The End of Sleep
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The Dark Court (Songs of the Sage, #2)
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The Crucible of Language
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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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How Words Mean: Lexical Concepts, Cognitive Models, and Meaning Construction
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2009
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7 editions
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The Crucible of Language
Book that explores the nature and origin of language to be published in Turkish
, a popular science book by Vyvyan Evans unravels how language and mind co-conspire to produce meaning. Ranging from an analysis of how jokes work, to uncovering the time depth and evolution of language, the book explores the way we use language to communicate with one another. The Crucib
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A Cloud of Unknowing now available for pre-order!
"Well, it didn't kill me after all.
Not to say that it didnt exact a toll in blood, sweat, and tears. This was by far the hardest book for me to write so far. Perhaps that is as it should be...
At any rate, the sequel to Our Lady of the Artilect..."
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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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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
