2005 is the Year of Languages!  Celebrate the importance of language learning and cultural understanding by checking out language and linguistic materials from the library.  Examine the history of English, learn to speak a new language with our language courses on CD, explore dialect, accent, and regionalism, brush up on the rules of language, or discover the world of linguistics.  Celebrate!  Educate!  Communicate!

Aitchison, Jean.  Teach Yourself Linguistics.  P121 A394 1999

Baron, Naomi.  Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where it's Heading.  PE1075 B28 2000

Baugh, John.  Out of the Mouths of Slaves.  PE3102 N42 B39 1999

Bragg, Melvyn.  The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language.  PE1075 B66 2004

Bryson, Bill.  Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States.  PE2809 B79 1996

Chomsky, Noam.  Language and Mind.  VHS P106 C523x 1997

Corballis, Michael.  From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language.  P116 C67 2002

Crystal, David.  Language and Death.  P40.5 L33 C79 2000

Crystal, David.  Language and the Internet.  P107 C78 2001

Dalby, Andrew.  Language in Danger: The Loss of Linguistic Diversity and the Threat to Our Future.  P40.5 L33 D35 2003

Dicker, Susan.  Languages in America: A Pluralist View.  P377 D53 1996

Fishman, Joshua.  Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity.  P35 H34 1999

Fiske, Robert Hartwell.  The Dimwit's Dictionary: 5000 Overused Words and Phrases and Alternatives to Them.  PE1591 F566 2002

Garcia, Joseph.  Sign with your Baby.  P118.5 G367 2001

Hofstadter, Douglas R.  Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language.  P306 H63 1997

Janson, Tore.  Speak: A Short History of Languages.  P140 J36 2002

Knowles, Gerry.  A Cultural History of the English Language.  PE1075 K68 1997

Luke, Gary.  Americanisms.  PE2835 L85 2003

Lutz, William.  The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone's Saying Anymore.  P409 L89 1996

MacNeil, Robert.  Do You Speak American?  PE2808 M26 2005

McWhorter, John.  Doing Our Own Thing:  The Degradation of Language and Music, and Why We Should, Like, Care.  PE2808.8 M38 2003

McWhorter, John.  The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language.  P140 M34 2001

Meier, Daniel R.  The Young Child's Memory for Words.  P118.7 M45 2004

Melchers, Gunnel.  World Englishes.  PE1074.7 M45x 2003

Napoli, Donna Jo.  Language Matters: A Guide to Everyday Thinking about Language.  P107 N37 2003

Nunberg, Geoffrey.  The Way We Talk Now.  P107 N86 2001

Pimsleur Language Lessons: Comprehensive: Eastern Arabic.  CD PJ6820 D3 A735x 2003

Pimsleur Language Lessons: Comprehensive: French.  CD PC2112.7 F7472x 2002

Pimsleur Language Lessons: Comprehensive: German.  CD PF3112.7 G472x 2002

Pimsleur Language Lessons: Comprehensive: Italian.  CD PC1112.7 I8352x 2002

Pimsleur Language Lessons: Comprehensive: Japanese.  CD PL539.3 J262x 2002

Pimsleur Language Lessons: Comprehensive: Mandarin.  CD PL1125 E6 M362x 2004

Pimsleur Language Lessons: Comprehensive: Spanish.  CD PC4112.7 SS6357x 2002

Pimsleur Language Program, Short Course: Portuguese.   CD PC5067.5 P6728x 2000

Pimsleur Language Program, Short Course: Russian.  CD PG2112.7 R88x 2001

Pimsleur Language Program, Short Course: Hebrew.  CD PJ4573 H448x 1999

Pinker, Steven.  The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language.  P106 P476 1994

Pinker, Steven.  Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language.  P106 P477 1999

Robinson, Andrew.  Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts.  P211 R59 2002

Santa Ana, Otto.  Tongue Tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education.  LC3731 T64 2004 

Shanker, Stuart.  The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved From Our Primate Ancestors To Modern Humans.  BF698.95 G73 2004

Smitherman, Geneva.  Talkin That Talk: Language, Culture and Education in African America.  PE3102 N4 S63 2000

Stevenson, Victor.  The World of Words: An Illustrated History of Western Languages.  P541 S67 2000

Suleiman, Yasir.  The Arabic Language and National Identity.  DS63.6 S94 2003

Tannen, Deborah.  He Said, She Said: Gender, Language, & Communication.  VHS P120 S48 H473x 2001

Wade, Nicholas.  The Science Times Book of Language and Linguistics.  P106 S337 2000