Subject: English language › Semantics

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Books under this subject

• The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (2,340 copies)
• Language in Thought and Action: Fifth Edition by S. I. Hayakawa (380 copies)
• Studies in Words by C. S. Lewis (247 copies)
• Heavens to Betsy!: And Other Curious Sayings by Charles Earle Funk (165 copies)
• The F-Word by Jesse Sheidlower (161 copies)
• Why You Say It by Webb B. Garrison (154 copies)
• The Play of Words by Richard Lederer (137 copies)
• History in English Words by Owen Barfield (108 copies)
• Horsefeathers and other curious words by Charles E. Funk (97 copies)
• Buckley: The Right Word by William F. Jr Buckley (93 copies)
• Language in action by S. I. Hayakawa (58 copies)
• The Structure of Complex Words by William Empson (51 copies)
• Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meaning by Sol Steinmetz (50 copies)
• Words And Women by Casey Miller (44 copies)
• The New Sentence by Ron Silliman (26 copies)
• On The Study Of Words by Richard Chenevix Trench (25 copies)
• The Romance of Words by Ernest Weekley (22 copies)
• Cohesion in English by M. A. K. Halliday (20 copies)
• Weasel Words by Philip Howard (19 copies)
• Say it my way: How to avoid certain pitfalls of spoken… by Willard R. Espy (19 copies)
• Semantic Analysis by Paul Ziff (14 copies)
• Words fail me by Philip Howard (14 copies)
• Semantics and Communication by John C. Condon (12 copies)
• New Words for Old by Philip Howard (12 copies)
• Dictionary of Obsolete English by Richard Chenevix Trench (10 copies)
• Double-Speak in America, by Mario Pei (10 copies)
• The abecedarian book by Charles Wright Ferguson (10 copies)
• Forensic Linguistics: An Introduction to Language in the… by John Gibbons (9 copies)
• Towards a semantic description of English by Geoffrey N. Leech (8 copies)
• Mannerisms of Speech and Gestures in Everyday Life by Sandor S. Feldman (8 copies)
• Just Ask Mr. Wordwizard (Intrepid Linguist Library) by David Grambs (8 copies)
• Comfortable words by Bergen Evans (8 copies)
• The words we use by J. A. Sheard (6 copies)
• On the wisdom of words by Geoffrey Atheling Wagner (6 copies)
• Words and Their Meaning (Learning About Language) by Howard Jackson (5 copies)
• Semantic Mapping: Classroom Applications (Reading Aids… by Joan E. Heimlich (5 copies)
• Guia Prático de Tradução Inglesa by Agenor Soares dos Santos (5 copies)
• Words: their use and abuse by William Mathews (4 copies)
• Language in America by Neil Postman (4 copies)
• Adjectives and other words by Ernest Weekley (4 copies)
• English Words and Their Background. by George Harley McKnight (3 copies)
• Words and Their Uses : Past and Present : A Study of the… by Richard Grant White (3 copies)
• Lies Like Truth: Shakespeare, Macbeth, and the Cultural… by Arthur F. Kinney (3 copies)
• Declining grammar and other essays on the English… by Dennis E. Baron (3 copies)
• Words, Words, and Words about Dictionaries by Jack C. Gray (2 copies)
• Phrase and paraphrase; some innovative uses of language by Lila R. Gleitman (2 copies)
• Words: Reflections on the uses of language (2 copies)
• Beyond nineteen eighty-four : doublespeak in a… by William Lutz (2 copies)
• Language in America (2 copies)
• Semantic Feature Analysis: Classroom Applications (Reading… (2 copies)

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