Social Linguistics

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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 out of 5 stars 5 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 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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    • 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: Jack London
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • Better English Series
    • By: Edie Schwager
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Would you like to find new words to use in your speech and writing? Would you like to be a fascinating conversationalist? Would you like to be a Scrabble expert? This book is for you....

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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: Honoré de Balzac
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 24-12-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Hailed as the father of the naturalist novel, French author and playwright Honoré de Balzac left a legacy of treasured literary works that include Père Goriot and Cousin Bette....

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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: 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: 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: 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: Zane Grey
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2011
    • Language: English
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    • Zane Grey, an author synonymous with the daring tales of the Wild West, delivers an exciting tale in this phenomenal best-seller, The U.P. Trail....

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    • Read People Like a Book, Make People Laugh, Talk to Anyone, Increase Charisma and Persuasion, and Improve Your Listening Skills
    • By: James W. Williams
    • Narrated by: Lee Jagow, Sam Slydell, Russell Newton
    • Length: 22 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 14-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Communication Skills Training is a collection of seven books that are designed to help you with every aspect of improving your communication skills, interpersonal relationships, becoming more charismatic and influential, and building confidence....

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    • By: Rudyard Kipling
    • Narrated by: Gideon Emery
    • Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2015
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Stalky & Co. is a book, published in 1899 by Rudyard Kipling, about adolescent boys at a British boarding school. It is a collection of linked short stories....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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