Product Description: With contributions from Aristotle to Lakoff and Johnson, and incorporating the work of philosophers, linguists, literary theorists, and cognitive psychologists, this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary six-volume collection on metaphor and figurative language is a new title from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Linguistics series...read more

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Covers over 6,000 names in common use in English. This work covers pet names, variant spellings, and gives historical and linguistic information for names, from Aaron to Zuleika. It includes the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous historical bearers for the name are.

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Product Description: Do you love your name? Do you hate your name? What does your name really mean? How do you choose the right name for someone? Here is the ultimate first name handbook--a delightfully informative, comprehensive survey, from the traditional to the new and unconventional...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This special combined book and CD-ROM dictionary allows you to obtain the maximum benefits from the text. It focuses on English as it is really used today, informed by currently available evidence and the latest research. The dictionary places the most frequently used meanings of each word first, followed by secondary and technical senses, slang, idioms, and historical and obsolete senses...read more

Product Description: A guide for parents faced with the enjoyable, but often difficult, task of choosing a suitable name for their child. Covering the meaning and origin of some 2500 first names in common use in the English-speaking world, the book also records variations in spelling, masculine and feminine forms, diminutives, and foreign language equivalents...read more

Product Description: A unique reference work, this international dictionary is a systematic, comparative survey of the origins and meanings of some 100,000 currently used surnames of European origin, as they are presently found throughout the world. With the help of consultant editors in specific areas--particularly for Jewish, Spanish, and Gaelic names--the authors present information about the language or region in which the surname originated, major events in the history of noted names, the original meaning, peculiarites of regional distribution, and in some cases the form, date, and location of early instances of the name...read more

Product Description: A new guide to the origin and meaning of over 1,500 first names in common use in the English-speaking world.