Language and languages
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Babel-17
Oliver Twist
Amazing Grace
I smikh, i plach
The crisis of public communication
Spelling Works (Spelling Activities)
The Beauty that saves
Religious language and the problem of religious knowledge. --
Abuse of language, abuse of power
Dictionary of the American West
Error analysis and interlanguage
Vocabulary and notes to Ba Jin's Jia
Language Conflict and National Development
The limitations of language
Tractatus logico-philosophicus
Linguistic change
All those wonderful names
A mouthful of onomatopoeia
How to do things with words
Teaching and Learning Grammar (Keys to Language Teaching)
Pope and the heroic tradition
Language and ontology
Propositional structure and illocutionary force
The metaphysics of meaning
Lectures on the science of language, delivered at the Royal institution of Great Britain in 1861 [and 1863]
Real English
The primacy of persons and the language of culture
Speaking Freely
Roland Barthes, structuralism and after
How language works
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