Språk: historie og generelt

Viking Language 1: Learn Old Norse, Runes, and Icelandic Sagas, 2nd upgraded edition. New, smaller book size with same content. Everything necessary to learn and teach Old Norse. …

'An enchanting story about love, loss and the power of language' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll FactorySometimes you have to start with what's lost to truly find …

Visste du at ordene motor, mobil, møbel, mosjon, motiv og mobbing alle kommer fra det latinske movere (bevege)? At en amatør i bokstavelig forstand er en som elsker det hun holder …

Hjemmekoselig, hytta, hålke, værfast, brødskive, solveggen... Denne boka tar for seg alle de ordene som ikke bare karakteriserer oss nordmenn, men som kanskje også er med på å …

Does language reflect the culture of a society? Is our mother-tongue a lens through which we perceive the world? Can different languages lead their speakers to different thoughts? …

Welcome to Europe as you've never known it before, seen through the peculiarities of its languages and dialects. Combining linguistics and cultural history, Gaston Dorren takes us …

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON. 'An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of rhetoric ... Mark Forsyth wears …

'More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to...'Only Bill Bryson could make a book about the English language so entertaining. …

Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more: Because Internet is the perfect book for understanding how the internet …

Hva snakket de i England før engelsk? Hvordan så engelsk ut for tusen år siden? Kunne vikingene og engelskmennene forstå hverandre? Hvorfor er engelsk staving så komplisert? …