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Arthur, J.M. Aboriginal English: A Cultural Study
Melbourne Oxford University Press Australia 1996 0195540182 / 9780195540185 First Paperback Near Fine Octavo
264 pp. Very light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. a tiny fleck to first page. All else as new. "Demonstrates some of the ways in which Aboriginal people over the past 200 years have made a language of Europe their own. It provides an important and needed understanding of one of the languages of Aboriginal Australia."
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25.00 AUD
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Bernabe,Marc Japanese in Mangaland: Learning The Basics
Tokyo Japan Publications Trading 2003 4889961151 / 9784889961157 First Limpback Near Fine No Jacket Small Quarto
269 pp. Extremely light general and edgewear to illustrated covers. All else as new. "Texts found in the popular comics, or mangas, are the starting point for learning written and spoken Japanese. Whether or not you are interested in manga, you can pick up the basics from these clear and concise lessons divided into 30 chapters, with plenty of practical exercises and a miniguidebook of the 160 essential kanji."
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20.00 AUD
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Clark, Herbert H. Using Language
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2003 0521567459 / 9780521567459 Reprint Paperback Good Octavo
xi, 432 pp. Light general and edgewear to covers. Corners a little curled; spine uncreased. Faint discolouration and slight scuffing to edges of text block. Internally unmarked and solidly bound. References, index of names, subject index. "...sets out the thesis that language use is really a form of joint action."
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30.00 AUD
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Editorial Staff, The East Magazine Kanji Kanji
Tokyo The East Publications 1972 Second Printing Hard Cover Good Good Octavo Ban Kojin
191 pp. Light general and edgewear (creasing, a few small chips, discolouration esp. along upper edge), to unclipped dj. Boards square and clean. Light discolouration to edges of text block. Prev. owners' details embossed on ffep; another prev. owner's name to half-title page. One or two small splotches, and a shallow crease, to first few pages. Text is clean, bright, solidly bound. Calligraphy-based b/w ink paintings throughout. "Reveals the secrets of Chinese characters and the stories and legends that surround them in a manner so interesting you won't be able to forget them."
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24.00 AUD
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Emblen, D.L. Peter Mark Roget: The Word and the Man
London Longman 1970 0582108276 / 9780582108271 Hard Cover Very Good Good Octavo
368 pp. Light general and edgewear to price-clipped dustjacket. Foxing to edges of text block. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. Black-and-white plates. Appendices: Advice to the Poor; and The Published Writings of Peter Mark Roget. Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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18.00 AUD
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Faris, James C Nuba Personal Art
London Duckworth 1972 0715605941 / 9780715605943 First Cloth Good Good 0ctavo
130pp. Dustjacket slightly worn at edges; two 1-inch tears on lower edge. Price clipped. Light wear to lower board edges. Two tiny red dots to edges of text block. Internally unmarked; solidly bound. With 15 line drawings, and 52 b/w and 28 colour photographs. Tables and diagrams. List of plates. Notes, bibliography, index. "...Documents the unique Nuba art tradition, placing it in its social, ecological and cultural setting. ...Also specifies the principles of the visual grammar in algorithmic form, using methods derived from generative linguistics."
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Folsom, Franklin The Wonderful Story of Language
London Odhams Books Limited 1963 Hard Cover Good + No Jacket Quarto John Hull and Tran Mawicke
192 pp. Very light general wear to illustrated glossy boards. Ends of backstrip and (unbumped) corners are a little chipped. Internally unmarked and solidly bound. Linguistics for children. Colour and b/w illustrations throughout.
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45.00 AUD
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Fry, D.B. The Physics of Speech
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1987 0521293790 / 9780521293792 Reissue Paperback Good Octavo
148 pp. Slight edgewear. Corners rubbed. Prev. owner's sticker to inside front cover. Faint pencilled underlining to a few pages in one chapter only. Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics series. Includes "a fully illustrated account of the use of the sound spectrograph in acoustic analysis and chapters dealing with the acoustic features of English sounds and with the way we recognise speech sounds by the acoustic cues inherent in a particular language."
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15.00 AUD
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Haldane, R. A. The Hidden World
London Robert Hale 1976 0709153511 / 9780709153511 First Great Britain Hard Cover Good Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
207 pp. Occasional diagrams. "...sets forth the story of hidden writing from earliest times to the present." Page edges lightly yellowed and foxed. Small ink inscription to front flyleaf. Boards with some edgewear. Dustjacket with light edgewear and general wear, and some light creasing. Dustjacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped.
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Harris, Roy The Language Machine
Ithaca, New York Cornell University Press 1987 0801421055 / 9780801421051 First Great Britain Hard Cover As New Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
182 pp. Dustjacket, now protected in archival mylar, is not clipped. but has slight edgewear -- wrinkling along top edge, tiny chips to corners. Black cloth boards with gilt lettering along spine.
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Jones, W.E., and J. Laver, editors Phonetics in Linguistics: A Book of Reading
London Longman 1973 0582524512 / 9780582524514 First Hard Cover Good Good Octavo
345 pp. Light general and edgewear to unclipped dj. Faint foxing to edges of text block and eps. Internally unmarked, solidly bound. "The book is designed to show the scope and character of what might be called the modern "British School" of phonetics, as it has developed from the pioneer work in the 19th century of Sweet, Ellis and Bell. Two figures in particular have dominated British phonetics and phonology in the 20th century, Daniel Jones and J. R. Firth; six of their articles are reprinted here, and all the remaining articles were written by scholars who were themselves colleagues or students of Jones or Firth, or by those scholars' own later students."
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25.00 AUD
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