An Introduction to Language
Fromkin, Rodman, & Hyams

An Introduction to Language is ideal for use at all levels and in many different areas of instruction including psychology, anthropology, teaching English as a second language, and linguistics.

The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker

In this classic study, a leading expert on linguistics explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved.

Language in Thought and Action
S. I. Hayakawa

Hayakawa writes in an engaging and non-pedantic style as he discusses concepts such as the abstraction ladder, the two-value perspective, sloganeering, and tunnel vision. Includes the famous essay "Poetry and Advertising." A must-read for serious students of literature, rhetoric, philosophy, politics, or mass communication.

The English Language
David Crystal

This is the definitive survey of the English language in all its forms. Crystal writes accessibly about the structure of the language, the uses of English throughout the world, and a brief history of English.

The Linguist List: The world's largest online linguistic resource.

The Linguist List is dedicated to providing information on language and language analysis, and to providing the discipline of linguistics with the infrastructure necessary to function in the digital world.

iLoveLanguages: a comprehensive catalog of Internet resources.

Noam Chomsky: The founding father of modern linguistics.

"Fish swim, birds fly, people talk. The talents displayed by fish and birds rest on specific biological structures whose intricate detail is attributable to genetic endowment. Human linguistic capacity similarly rests on dedicated mental structures many of whose specific details are an innate biological endowment of the species. One of Chomsky’s central concerns has been to press this analogy and uncover its implications for theories of mind, meaning and knowledge." [Edward Craig (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, London, 1998]

The Well-Traveled Casket
Tom Nash and Twilo Scofield

Combining folklore and history, this collection presents legends, myths, customs, songs, recipes, superstitions, and tales from the state's six distinct geographic regions and from its diverse ethnic populations.

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10 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary
Tom Nash

Here is a vocabulary-building program that offers you fast, effective techniques for learning hundreds of new words. Using proven memory devices and self-quizzes, and drawing on new words from fields that include the Internet, politics, and law, 10 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary will help you:

• Develop the right vocabulary for your profession
• Distinguish between words that sound or look the same—from tortuous and torturous to eminent and imminent
• Expand your vocabulary every day by using newspapers and magazines
• Feel comfortable and confident when you use new words
• Enrich your vocabulary with words from science, art, and literature
• Learn just a few easy word roots to absorb hundreds of related words

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