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Babel-17
Decamerone
Macbeth
Literary journalism
Histoire de s. Louis
Effective writing
The grammar book
Birth defects and speech-language disorders
Salty dog talk
Words that make a difference
Spanish now!
Vocabulary and notes to Ba Jin's Jia
Standard English, Black English, and bidialectalism
The Little, Brown handbook
Associated Press broadcast news handbook
Narrative semiotics and cognitive discourses
Chicano discourse
501 Italian verbs
Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Children's language and the language arts
Language, gender, and professional writing
Essential cognitive psychology
El español de los negocios
Lectures on the science of language, delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain in 1861 [and 1863]
Swahili phrase book & dictionary
Helping young children learn language and literacy
Active listening
Conversational German in 7 days
Elementary Korean
Speaking Freely
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