Harcourt, October 2000. Trade Paperback. How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth..... More
Penguin Books, 1981. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with moderate wear. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. Dog earred corners pages 121 through 196. More
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, November 2000. Trade Paperback. The classic book on the development of human language by the world's leading expert on language and the mind. In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works..... More
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, June 1965. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Lays the foundation for modern studies in historical and descriptive linguistics." Octavo. A few marginal markings and previous owner's name in ink inside first page. [240 pages]. More
N/A, December 1998. Trade Paperback. The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such..... More
Gotham, April 2004. Hardcover. We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots..... More
