English Linguistics

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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: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 304 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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    • Better English Series
    • By: Edie Schwager
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 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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    • The Biography of a Language
    • By: Melvyn Bragg
    • Narrated by: Robert Powell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,924 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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    • A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
    • By: Joseph Twadell Shipley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: P.H. Matthews
    • Narrated by: James Conlan
    • Length: 3 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 22 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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    • 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: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,195 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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    • By: Louisa May Alcott
    • Narrated by: Barbara Caruso
    • Series: Eight Cousins, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them....

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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 399 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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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • A History of Linguistic Aggravation
    • By: Ammon Shea
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary examples, the audiobook chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes....

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    • By: Honoré de Balzac
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Fried
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 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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    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 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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    • How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
    • By: Don Kulick
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Renowned linguistic anthropologist Don Kulick first went to study the tiny jungle village of Gapun in New Guinea over 30 years ago to document how it was that their native language, Tayap, was dying....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Stephen McLaughlin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,273 ratings
    • With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Bryson brilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience, and sheer fun of the English language....

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    • Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
    • By: David Abram
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature....

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    • By: Henry James
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble, Katherine Kellgren
    • Length: 21 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 108 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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    • Your Daily Affirmations to Increase Your Confidence Using the Power of the Law of Attraction
    • By: Stephens Hyang
    • Narrated by: Robert Gazy
    • Length: 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 283 ratings
    • This audiobook will show that your subconscious is the most powerful tool to help alter your life in a positive manner....

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    • By: Jack London
    • Narrated by: Andrew Garman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 214 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: E. Nesbit
    • Narrated by: Johanna Ward
    • Series: The Psammead Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 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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