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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Psychologist Pinker explains how the mind works in a completely new way--by examining how we use words. Every time we swear, we reveal something about human emotions. When we use an innuendo to convey a bribe, threat, or sexual come-on (rather than just blurting it out), we disclose something about human relationships. Our use of prepositions and tenses tap into peculiarly human concepts of space and time, and our nouns and verbs tap into mental models...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What letter does the word bee start with? If you said "B" you're right - in English! But in many, many languages, it actually starts with A. Bee is An�u in Igbo, Aamoo in Ojibwe, Abelha in Portugese. And Ar� in Turkish. Come and explore the gorgeous variations in the ways we talk about familiar things, unified and illuminated through Ellen Heck's eye-catching, graphic scratchboard details and hidden letterforms."--
3) Krong!
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a spaceship lands in his yard, Jake and his dog try to communicate with the alien and alien dog that emerge using different languages.
4) Fly by night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old orphan, Mosca Mye, and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man Eponymous Clent, driven by her love of language to find a better life.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At nine-and-a-half Maddy West can speak every language in the world, a skill her mother finds weird--but when Maddy is asked to translate some ancient scrolls in Bulgaria, she and her ten-year-old friend Kazuki find themselves on a wild adventure with a mysterious monkey, a Bulgarian wrestler, evil magic, and a fiendish witch.
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