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The Story of Human Language
- Written by: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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Content is good. But it is not captivating.
- By Shivakumar on 02-06-20
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The Story of Human Language
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day
- Better English Series
- Written by: Edie Schwager
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
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Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day offers a lively and entertaining method for adding a more impressive list of words to your everyday speech, and for learning how to use them effortlessly and accurately. Besides giving definitions, this invaluable guide also provides root meanings and elements of words so you can increase your vocabulary base by thousands of exciting new words and use them with aplomb in sentences.
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Better Vocabulary in 30 Minutes a Day
- Better English Series
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins
- Release Date: 17-10-16
- Language: English
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
- How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- Written by: David W. Anthony
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.
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Brillant Book
- By Pallav on 06-08-19
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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language
- How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
- Release Date: 11-09-18
- Language: English
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The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- Written by: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
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In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....
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The Language Instinct
- How the Mind Creates Language
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
- Release Date: 06-12-11
- Language: English
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The Sense of Style
- The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- Written by: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Bad writing can't be blamed on the internet or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretence, empathy and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century.
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The Sense of Style
- The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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Says Who?
- A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
- Written by: Anne Curzan
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
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Our use of language naturally evolves and is a living breathing thing that reflects who we are. Says Who? offers clear, nuanced guidance that goes beyond “right” and “wrong” to empower us to make informed language choices. Never snooty or scoldy (yes, that’s a “real” word!), this book explains where the grammar rules we learned in school actually come from and reveals the forces that drive dictionary editors to label certain words as slang or unacceptable.
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Says Who?
- A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release Date: 26-03-24
- Language: English
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Written by: Maryanne Wolf
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
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Interweaving her vast knowledge of neurology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy with fascinating down-to-earth examples and lively personal anecdotes, developmental psychologist, neuroscientist, and dyslexia expert Wolf probes the question, "How do we learn to read and write?" This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading, its effect on our lives, and explains why it matters so greatly in a digital era.
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Suoer
- By Manjula on 19-05-23
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Proust and the Squid
- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
- Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 26-08-08
- Language: English
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Written by: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
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Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply 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 on all three of these areas of research to which he has contributed for over half a century.
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What Kind of Creatures Are We?
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 4 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 15-05-18
- Language: English
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The Stuff of Thought
- Language as a Window into Human Nature
- Written by: Steven Pinker
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
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Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are. Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions, or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we threaten and bribe and seduce in such elaborate, often comical ways? How can a choice of metaphor damn a politician or start a war? And why do we rarely say what we actually mean?
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The Stuff of Thought
- Language as a Window into Human Nature
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
- Release Date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- Written by: Dennis Yi Tenen
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
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Literary Theory for Robots reveals the hidden history of modern machine intelligence, taking listeners on a spellbinding journey from medieval Arabic philosophy to visions of a universal language, past Hollywood fiction factories, and missile defense systems trained on Russian folktales. In this provocative reflection on the shared pasts of literature and computer science, former Microsoft engineer and professor of comparative literature Dennis Yi Tenen provides crucial context for recent developments in AI, which holds important lessons for the future of humans living with smart technology.
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Literary Theory for Robots
- How Computers Learned to Write
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lam
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Release Date: 06-02-24
- Language: English
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
- Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- Written by: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Daniel Everett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the Pirahã in 1977 - with his wife and three young children - intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way of life that evades contemporary understanding. The Pirahã have no counting system and no fixed terms for color. They have no concept of war or of personal property.
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
- Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- Narrated by: Daniel Everett
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 06-06-17
- Language: English
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Made in America
- Written by: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land, explaining how a dusty hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up, as well as exposing the true origins of the G-string, the original $64,000 question, and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
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William Roberts is King of Voice
- By Ram KR on 27-01-23
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Made in America
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 16-01-06
- Language: English
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First You Write a Sentence.
- The Elements of Reading, Writing...and Life.
- Written by: Joe Moran
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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The sentence is the common ground where every writer walks. A poet writes in sentences, but so does the unsung author who came up with Items trapped in doors cause delays. A good sentence can be written (and read) by anyone if we simply give it the gift of our time, and it is as close as most of us will get to making something truly beautiful. Enter acclaimed author Professor Joe Moran. Using minimal technical terms, First You Write a Sentence is his unpedantic but authoritative explanation of how the most ordinary words can be turned into verbal constellations of extraordinary grace.
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Amazing
- By JasrotiaN on 09-10-20
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First You Write a Sentence.
- The Elements of Reading, Writing...and Life.
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 27-09-18
- Language: English
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Sprache ist, was du draus machst!
- Wie wir Deutsch immer wieder neu erfinden
- Written by: Simon Meier-Vieracker
- Narrated by: Marian Funk
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
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Linguistik-Professor Simon Meier-Vieracker vermittelt uns die faszinierende Vielfalt der deutschen Sprache. Wir sprechen, also sind wir. In verschiedenen Gegenden Deutschlands wird unterschiedlich gesprochen. Die lokalen Dialekte haben nicht nur Kultstatus, sondern geben uns auch Auskunft über die Herkunft von Sprechenden. Während das Ende eines Brotstücks beispielsweise in Ostdeutschland oft als »Kanten« bezeichnet wird, sagt man in Hamburg eher »Knust« und im Schwabenland heißt es oft »Riebele«.
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Sprache ist, was du draus machst!
- Wie wir Deutsch immer wieder neu erfinden
- Narrated by: Marian Funk
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release Date: 02-05-24
- Language: german
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Written by: Daniel L. Everett
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
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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? Daniel L. Everett, a "bombshell" linguist and "instant folk hero" (Tom Wolfe, Harper's), provides in this sweeping history a comprehensive examination of the evolutionary story of language, from the earliest speaking attempts by hominids to the more than 7,000 languages that exist today.
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Good and Logical Point of View
- By deepmoni hazarika on 01-07-19
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How Language Began
- The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Release Date: 20-03-18
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- Written by: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language provides a fascinating survey of how grammar came into being and the differences or similarities between languages spoken around the world, before exploring how language eventually emerged in the very remote human past.
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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Semiotics: The Basics
- The Basics
- Written by: Daniel Chandler
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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This third edition of the bestselling textbook has been fully revised, continuing to provide a concise introduction to the key concepts of semiotics in accessible and jargon-free language.
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Semiotics: The Basics
- The Basics
- Narrated by: Ric Jerrom
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Release Date: 22-07-22
- Language: English
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Because Internet
- Understanding the New Rules of Language
- Written by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Narrated by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Length: 8 hrs
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Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come from. It's the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.
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Because Internet
- Understanding the New Rules of Language
- Narrated by: Gretchen McCulloch
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release Date: 23-07-19
- Language: English
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The Origins of English Words
- A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
- Written by: Joseph Twadell Shipley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
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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. In The Origins of English Words, Shipley catalogues these proposed roots and follows the often devious, always fascinating, process by which some of their offshoots have grown.
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The Origins of English Words
- A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
- Release Date: 25-08-23
- Language: English
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Aristotle's Poetics
- Written by: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definitions and analyses of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts. In our age, when the natural and social sciences have dominated the quest for truth, it is helpful to consider why Aristotle claimed poetry is more philosophical and more significant than history. Like so many other works by Aristotle, the Poetics has dominated the way we have thought about all forms of dramatic performance in Europe and America ever since.
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it's a good read
- By Placeholder on 03-06-23
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Aristotle's Poetics
- Narrated by: Ray Childs
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release Date: 04-04-16
- Language: English
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