English Linguistics

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    • The Biography of a Language
    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 928 ratings
    • This is the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings as a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language....

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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: 18-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 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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    • 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: 05-10-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 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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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • By: Jack London
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 15-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 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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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 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: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 15-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 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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    • By: Carlo Collodi
    • Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • 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: 16-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,416 ratings
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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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: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 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: Henry James
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Katherine Kellgren
    • Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 12 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: E. Nesbit
    • Narrated by: Johanna Ward
    • Series: The Psammead Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 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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    • The English Language in Just a Minute
    • By: Gyles Brandreth
    • Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • By: Rudyard Kipling
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: P.H. Matthews
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found....

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    • By: Aldous Huxley
    • Narrated by: James Langton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • By: Anna Katharine Green
    • Narrated by: Steve Marvel
    • Series: Ebenezer Gryce, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 25-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • Showcasing Green's verve and style, The Leavenworth Case opens with the shocking murder of Horatio Leavenworth, a wealthy New York merchant, philanthropist, and well-known member of the community....

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