Best Sellers in Language
December 2010 to date as identified by YBP Library Services Sep 26, 20111) How To Write a Sentence: And How To Read One
Fish, Stanley
Harpercollins
2011. ISBN 9780061840548. $19.99
2) Conversation and Gender
Speer, Susan A.
Cambridge University Press
2011. ISBN 9780521873826. $99
3) White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity
Bucholtz, Mary
Cambridge University Press
2011. ISBN 9780521871495. $99
4) Media Literacy and Semiotics
Gaines, Elliot
Palgrave Macmillan
2010. ISBN 9780230108271. $90
5) The Communication of Hate
Waltman, Michael
Peter Lang
2011. ISBN 9781433104473. $89.95
6) Latino Children Learning English: Steps in the Journey
Valdés, Guadalupe
Teachers College Press
2011. ISBN 9780807751459. $74
7) Language Myths and the History of English
Watts, Richard J.
Oxford University Press
2011. ISBN 9780195327601. $99
8) I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
Geary, James
HarperCollins
2011. ISBN 9780061710285. $19.99
9) Language and the African American Child
Green, Lisa J.
Cambridge University Press
2011. ISBN 9780521853095. $99
10) Evolving English: One Language, Many Voices; An Illustrated History of the English Language
Crystal, David
British Library
2010. ISBN 9780712350990. $35
11) Letting Stories Breathe: A Socio-Narratology
Frank, Arthur W.
University of Chicago Press
2010. ISBN 9780226260136. $25
12) Sound and Script in Chinese Diaspora
Jing Tsu
Harvard University Press
2010. ISBN 9780674055407. $45
13) "I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue": Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship
Grafton, Anthony
Belknap: Harvard University Press
2011. ISBN 9780674048409. $35
14) Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
Bagnall, Roger S.
University of California Press
2011. ISBN 9780520267022. $49.95
15) How Many Languages Do We Need? The Economics of Linguistic Diversity
Ginsburgh, Victor
Princeton University Press
2011. ISBN 9780691136899. $35
16) You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
Greene, Robert Lane
Delacorte
2011. ISBN 9780553807875. $25
17) Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age
Banks, Adam J.
Southern Illinois University Press
2011. ISBN 9780809330201. $32
18) Does Writing Have a Future?
Flusser, Vilém
University of Minnesota Press
2011. ISBN 9780816670222. $60
19) Language and Religion: A Journey into the Human Mind
Downes, William
Cambridge University Press
2011. ISBN 9780521792233. $99
20) Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide
Crystal, David
Routledge
2011. ISBN 9780415602686. $95
