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01830cam a2200265 a 4500 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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173182461 |
| CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20100324113446.0 |
| FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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070910s2008 enka b 001 0 eng |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2007037220 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780199238408 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)173182461 |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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YDXCP |
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BAKER |
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BWKUK |
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BWK |
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BTCTA |
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NLGGC |
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TXG |
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CDX |
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NhCcYME |
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
P107 |
| Item number |
.B583 2008 |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
Blake, Barry J. |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
All about language / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Barry J. Blake. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Oxford ; |
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New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Oxford University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2008. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvii, 322 p. : |
| Other physical details |
ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-312) and index. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"In clear, congenial style Barry Blake explains how language works. He describes the make-up of words and how they're built from sounds and signs and put together in phrases and sentences. He examines the dynamics of conversation and the relations between the sound and meaning. He shows how languages help their users connect to each other and to the world, how they vary across the globe, why they never stop changing, and that no two people speak a language in the same way. He looks at how language is acquired by infant children, how it relates to thought, and its operations in the brain. He investigates current trends and issues such as the levelling of linguistic class differences and the rise of new secret or in-group languages such as argot and teenspeak. He describes the history of writing from its origins to digital diffusion, and ends by looking at how language might have originated and then evolved among our distant hominid and primate ancestors." --Book Jacket. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Language and languages. |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
01. English Non Fiction |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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400 BLA |
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311 |
