Social Linguistics

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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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    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Noam Chomsky is known and admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he presents a lifetime of philosophical reflection....

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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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    • Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Daniel Everett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2017
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them....

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    • By: E. Nesbit
    • Narrated by: Johanna Ward
    • Series: The Psammead Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-2012
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In this follow-up to Nesbit’s classic Five Children and It, Cyril, Robert, Anthea, Jane, and the Lamb have more magical adventures in store when a mysterious egg hatches in the nursery fireplace....

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    • By: Jack London
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Martin Eden, Jack London’s semiautobiographical novel, is about a struggling young writer. It is considered by many to be the author’s most mature work....

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    • By: Carlo Collodi
    • Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When Geppetto makes a wooden puppet of a little boy, he is astonished when the puppet comes to life....

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    • By: Henry James
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Katherine Kellgren
    • Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie....

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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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    • By: Aldous Huxley
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-2015
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Set in post-WWI England, this perennial favorite satirizes the fads and fashions of the time with the tale of a hapless couple who join a colorful mix of British aristocrats attending a party at a rural country estate....

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    • Field Notes from an Amateur Philologist
    • By: Julian Burnside
    • Narrated by: James Millar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A bonzer (p. 288) discussion of the strange but dinkum (p. 289) pedigree (p. 224) of the naughty (p. 202), nice (p. 212), and, sometimes, obscene (p. 217) English language....

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    • Time Traders, Book 4
    • By: Andre Norton
    • Narrated by: Mark F. Smith
    • Series: Time Traders, Book 4
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2012
    • Language: English
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    • When Ross Murdock and Gordon Ashe set up a time gate on the alien world of Hawaika, they didn't anticipate that a storm would sweep them and their helper Karara Trehern through it....

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    • Discover How to Analyze People and Master Human Behaviour Using Emotional Influence Techniques, Body Language Secrets, Covert NLP, Speed Reading, and Hypnosis.
    • By: Vincent McDaniel
    • Narrated by: Vincent McDaniel
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 23-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Manipulation is a powerful tool, and it's not always easy to spot a manipulator. Manipulators can be very convincing, and they often get away with their behavior because people don't know how to spot them. But with the right tools and knowledge, we can learn how to protect ourselves....

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    • A Celebration of Life and the Words That Make Us Who We Are
    • By: William McInnes
    • Narrated by: William McInnes
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-2023
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Have you ever bunged it on? Behaved like a drongo? Added mayo to a story? Lost your Reg Grundies? Join bestselling storyteller William McInnes as he offers his own take on our colourful and colloquial way with words....

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    • By: Rudyard Kipling
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Including the stories "Lispeth", "Beyond the Pale", and "In the Pride of His Youth", this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances, and divided identities....

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    • The English Language in Just a Minute
    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • In this wildly entertaining A to Z of verbal acrobatics, Gyles takes you on a whirlwind tour of our mother tongue – from the origins of words and correct grammar and punctuation, to similes, euphemisms and record breaking tongue twisters (try getting your mouth around floccinaucinihilipification!).

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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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