THE BETTER-SPEECH INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

A New Self-Teaching Course in Practical English and Effective Speech

Chicago, IL: The Better-Speech Institute of America, 1938. Trade Edition. Booklet. This is a boxed set of 15 pamphlets covering all areas of the English language and to help with speech, enunciation, and elocution. The box is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and the pamphlets are in Near Fine condition. "A new self-teaching course in practical English and effective speech, comprising vocabulary development, grammar, pronunciation, enunciation and the fundamental principles of effective oral expression ". Near Fine .

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Book number: 34419

Catalogue: English Language

Keywords: English Language The Better-speech Institute Of America Elocution Correspondence Correct Behavior Language Studies Conversation Fluency English Language

CARDENAS, BENJAMIN

Spanish in One Lesson with Phonetic Pronunciation

Laredo, TX: Benjamin Cardenas, 1940. 3rd Revised Edition. Paperback. This is a small format paperback book. (approx. 6" x 4.5"). The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is a folded map of Mexico adhered to the rear inside cover of the book that is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's name ink stamped to the top edge of the front endpaper.. Very Good+ .

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Book number: 48096

Catalogue: Language Studies

Keywords: Language Studies Benjamin Cardenas Spanish - English Translation

CHAO, YUEN REN

Language and Symbolic Systems

London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1968. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Trade PB. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have some edge wear, rubbing and nicking to the spine ends, corners, and spine joints. The rear cover hs noticeable toning / darkening. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and date on the front inside cover of the book. "Yuen Ren Chao (3 November 1892 – 25 February 1982) , also known as Zhao Yuanren, was a Chinese-American linguist, educator, scholar, poet, and composer, who contributed to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar. Chao was born and raised in China, then attended university in the United States, where he earned degrees from Cornell University and Harvard University. A naturally gifted polyglot and linguist, his Mandarin Primer was one of the most widely used Mandarin Chinese textbooks in the 20th century. He invented the Gwoyeu Romatzyh romanization scheme, which, unlike pinyin and other romanization systems, transcribes Mandarin Chinese pronunciation without diacritics or numbers to indicate tones. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .

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Book number: 48844

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language Linguistics Yuen Ren Chao Symbolic Systems Cambridge University Press Classification Of Language

DONNEGAN, M. D. , JAMES

A New Greek and English Lexicon Principally on the Plan of the Greek and German Lexicon of Schneider: The Words Alphabetically Arragned

Boston, MA: Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1832. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. This is the "First American, from the Second London Edition, Revised and Enlarged by R. B. Patton" (from the title page) . This is an oversized (thick) volume (approx. 3" in depth). The calf covered boards are in generally good condition and the hinges are secure (which is probably a miracle, considering) , however, there is tearing to the outer front joint and all four corners of the covers have wear, and bits of leather missing, showing the boards underneath. The rear cover of the book has the outer layer of leather rubbed away or torn away for about one third of the area, giving it a well used look. The text pages are generally clean, though there are spots of foxing, what looks like a couple underlinings done by either the tip of a hot poker or a burning tool. One page has several small splotches of paint. The front pastedown page includes an inked math problem, along with several penciled math problems. "We start in Oxford, in the nineteenth century. The first Greek-English dictionary was published by a man called James Donnegan in 1826, but it was riddled with errors and inconsistencies, and so classicists were clamouring for an alternative. This is where we meet two friends: Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott who both worked at Oxford University. It was Liddell, the more authoritative of the two, who was initially asked to start compiling a new English-Greek dictionary, but he consented only if Scott would be asked as well. Liddell was from an affluent background and went on to become Vice-Chancellor of the whole university (he had a daughter called Alice who would become immortalized in Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland). "(from gorffennol blog). And also: "Spare a thought for the little-known James Donnegan, the Irish physician whose 1826 A New Greek and English Lexicon; Principally on the Plan of the Greek and German Lexicon of Schneider was the British market leader prior to L&S. Donnegan’s fourth edition was published in 1842, the year before L&S appeared. Apparently a denunciation of Donnegan’s work was suppressed from the preface of the first edition of L&S, which itself was derived from F. Passow’s Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache (1st ed. 1819-24, 4th ed. 1831)." (from Quinquennium). Good .

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Book number: 45547

Catalogue: Language Studies

Keywords: Language Studies James Donnegan, M. D. Lexicon Greek Language Reference Books Greek Studies

CH'IEN, EVELYN NIEN-MING

Weird English

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0674013379. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Evelyn Nien-Ming Ch’ien is Senior Books Editor for Hyphen. She is the author of Weird English (Harvard UP, 2004) and co-editor of The Annotated Poetry of Liao Entao (Guangdong Free People's Press, 2016). She currently posts titles of books she didn't get a chance to review in Hyphen (but wishes she could have)." (from Hyphen Press). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 49572

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: 0674013379 Language Evelyn Nien-ming Ch'ien Criticism English Language Fiction

MUTSU, HIROYOSHI

A Japanese Conversation Course

Tokyo, Japan: The Maruzen-Kabushiki-Kaisha, 1907. 4th Edition. Flexible cloth. This is a small format book with flexible cloth covers. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. There is some light fraying to the edges of the book covers. The top rear cover by the top spine joint has a patch of discoloration. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There are a couple of edge nicks to the text pages. There is a previous owner's name on the front endpaper, and an inked name on the front cover of the book. "Moreover it is only designed to give a knowledge of the conversational part of the language, and does not go in for its writing form, the difference between the two being much wider than in European languages. It is however hoped that the student will, by following this book with deligence and intelligence, be able to prepare himself for a deeper and higher study of the language.". Very Good+ .

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Book number: 37079

Catalogue: Language Studies

Keywords: Language Studies Hiroyoshi Mutsu Japanese Language Japanes Studies Conversational Japanese

PIKE, EVELYN G. & RACHEL SAINT (EDITED BY)

Workpapers Concerning Waorani Discourse Features (English and South American Indian Edition)

Dallas, TX: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1988. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0883126257. Trade PB. This is a trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book cover has several small spots of ground-in dirt, and one spot of rubbing to the front cover where there is some color loss. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Waorani (Huaorani) language, commonly known as Sabela (also Wao, Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri, Ssabela ; autonym: Wao Terero; pejorative: Auka, Auca) is a vulnerable language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon rainforest between the Napo and Curaray Rivers in Ecuador. A small number of speakers with so-called uncontacted groups may live in Peru. Huaorani is considered endangered due to growing bilingualism in Quechua and Spanish and diminishing Huaorani usage among youth. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 42996

Catalogue: Language Studies

Keywords: 0883126257 Language Studies Evelyn G. Pike Rachel Saint Waorani Langauge Amazon Rain Forests Huaorani People Ecuador

REED, IVY KELLERMAN

A Practical Grammar of the International Language (Esperanto)

Washington, D. C.: American School of Esperanto, 1915. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a small format paperback with cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The corners of the book covers have some light bumping and beginning creasing. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers have a previous owner's penciled notations and there is an ink stamped previous owner's name and address on the front endpaper. "Ivy Kellerman Reed (Oshkosh [Wisconsin], July 8, 1877 – La Jolla [California], February 7, 1968) was an American author in the international language Esperanto. An accomplished linguist with four academic degrees for work in Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and Persian and half a dozen modern languages, Reed was an ardent Esperantist. Her Practical Grammar of the International Language, first published in 1915, ran to several editions, and is available today online from Project Gutenberg free of charge. She was the translator with Ralph A. Lewin, of the famous Esperanto edition of Winnie-the-Pooh. She also translated Shakespeare’s As You Like It, the first performance of which was given at the sixth World Esperanto Congress in Washington D. C. In 1910." (from Wikipedia). Near Fine .

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Book number: 38610

Catalogue: Language Studies

Keywords: Language Studies Ivy Kellerman Reed Esperanto International Language American School Of Esperanto Languages