{"title":"Butterfield","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"damp-squid-book-butterfield-9780199239061","title":"Damp Squid","description":"Using evidence provided by the world's largest language databank, the Oxford English Corpus, Butterfield uncovers fascinating facts about the English language. Where does our vocabulary come from? How do word meanings change? How is our language really  being used? This entertaining book has the up-to-date and authoritative answers to all the key questions about our language. With over 2 billion words contained in the Oxford English Corpus, Butterfield takes a thorough look at the English language and exposes its peculiarities and penchants, its development and difficulties, revealing exactly how it operates. Interpolating his expert knowledge of dictionary-making, Butterfield explains how dictionaries decide which words to include, how they find definitions, and how a Corpus influences the process. Covering all areas of English, from spelling and speech to idioms and idiosyncrasies, including a thoughtful chapter about the future of English, and with entertaining examples and useful charts throughout, this compelling and lively book contains something for everyone.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49542297878801,"sku":"GOR001622106","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49597181722897,"sku":"GOR003701001","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50338424586513,"sku":"CIN0199239061VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345703112977,"sku":"CIN0199239061G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52905184657681,"sku":"CIN0199239061A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0199239061.jpg?v=1751437182"},{"product_id":"educational-objectives-and-national-assessment-book-butterfield-9780335194186","title":"Educational Objectives and National Assessment","description":"Changes in assessment are at the heart of government policy for change in the UK.  The GCSE, the National Curriculum and National Vocational Qualifications seek to make the progress of individuals more measurable - in order to make education professionals more accountable.  These changes create a precarious balance - between the promise of better opportunity for students and a system of centralized control which could be stifling for teachers and learners alike.  This book takes an overall view of the technical claims made for improvements in assessment, alongside the policy agenda within which the changes are introduced.  It highlights the dangers of taking a fragmented view - and allowing a competitive system and league tables to be based on information which may be technically shaky.  The alternative to mechanistic, objectives-driven models of control appear to be a reassertion of the professional role in education.  However, arguments for professional power have to be carefully weighed against the need for learner empowerment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49588536508689,"sku":"GOR013292146","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49592282906897,"sku":"GOR002389152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52427165106449,"sku":"NLS9780335194186","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0335194184.jpg?v=1750909762"},{"product_id":"origins-of-history-book-butterfield-9780465053445","title":"Origins of History","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49889629667601,"sku":"CIN0465053440G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50069092794641,"sku":"GOR010326742","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352918790417,"sku":"CIN0465053440A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50514152653073,"sku":"GOR007499034","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50516546978065,"sku":"GOR013336815","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53270472884497,"sku":"CIN0465053440VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0465053440.jpg?v=1751292616"},{"product_id":"night-journey-from-rome-book-butterfield-9780758913517","title":"Night Journey From Rome","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51729900405009,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51729900437777,"sku":"CIN0758913516VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0758913516.jpg?v=1751362121"},{"product_id":"language-mind-and-logic-book-butterfield-9780521108447","title":"Language Mind and Logic","description":"This is a collection of eleven original essays in analytical philosophy by British and American philosophers, centring on the connection between mind and language. Two themes predominate: how it is that thoughts and sentences can represent the world; and what having a thought - a belief, for instance - involves. Developing from these themes are the questions: what does having a belief require of the believer, and of the way he or she relates to the environment? In particular, does having a belief require speaking a language? The volume concludes the informal series stemming from the meetings sponsored by the Thyssen Foundation. It will interest analytical philosophers, students doing courses in philosophy of mind within the analytical tradition and philosophically interested researchers in cognitive psychology.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52474669367569,"sku":"NLS9780521108447","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52735518441745,"sku":"NIN9780521108447","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780521108447.jpg?v=1759841521"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-butterfield.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}