Linguistics History

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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-2008
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Find out more....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-2006
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 222 ratings
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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    • The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
    • By: Margalit Fox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 23-09-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This audiobook tells one of the most intriguing stories in the history of language, masterfully blending history, linguistics, and cryptology with an elegantly wrought narrative....

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    • How the Mind Creates Language
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

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    • The Untold Story of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
    • By: Sarah Ogilvie
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker, Sarah Ogilvie
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-2023
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED, and reveals, for the first time, the full story of the making of one of the most famous books in the world....

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    • Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf
    • By: Mark Frost
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Francis Ouimet and Harry Vardon came from different worlds and different generations, but their passion for golf set them on parallel paths that would collide in the greatest match....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Anthony Storr
    • Narrated by: Neville Jason
    • Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2004
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Sigmund Freud revolutionized the way in which we think about ourselves....

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    • By: Billy Kay
    • Narrated by: Billy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Scots: The Mither Tongue is a classic of contemporary Scottish culture and essential listening for those who care about their country's identity in the 21st century. It is a passionately written history of how the Scots have come to speak the way they do....

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    • What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
    • By: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Smart as hell and funny as f--k, What the F is mandatory listening for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear....

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    • The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
    • By: Ross Perlin
    • Narrated by: Ross Perlin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever.

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    • By: Byung-chul Han
    • Narrated by: Alberto Onofrietti
    • Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2024
    • Language: Italian
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    • Le narrazioni sono in crisi da tempo. Da bussole capaci di dare senso all'esistenza collettiva sono ormai diventate una merce come tutte le altre...

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    • A Day in the Life of the English Language
    • By: Simon Horobin
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 14-04-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Simon Horobin takes the listener on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories....

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    • By: Greg Harvey
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • What you'll find in The Oigins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies is a basic guide to some of the possible linguistic and mythological origins of Middle-earth, plus a rudimentary analysis of its many themes and lessons for our world....

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    • The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
    • By: Michael Erard
    • Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-06-2013
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy....

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