Mario Pei
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American linguist and philologist
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Mario Pei's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics Columbia University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mario Andrew Pei was an Italian-born American linguist and polyglot who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers without a professional background in linguistics. His book The Story of Language was acclaimed for its presentation of technical linguistics concepts in ways that were entertaining and accessible to a general audience.
Mario Pei's Published Works
Published Works
- Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (1957) (617)
- A Dictionary of Linguistics. (1954) (114)
- The story of language (1950) (55)
- The World's Living Languages (1964) (30)
- Language: A Modern Synthesis (1956) (29)
- One Language for the World (1958) (28)
- Glossary of Linguistic Terminology (1966) (24)
- From Cave Painting to Comic Strip (1950) (23)
- The Living Webster : encyclopedic dictionary of the English language (1971) (22)
- What's in a word? : Language : yesterday, today, and tomorrow (1968) (20)
- Italian Language (1941) (19)
- or Does It (1946) (17)
- The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages (1976) (16)
- The Geography of Language (1945) (13)
- The story of the English language (1968) (12)
- The Lexicon Webster dictionary (1977) (11)
- Meditations of the Life of Christ (1963) (10)
- How to learn languages and what languages to learn (1973) (10)
- Double speak in America (1981) (9)
- Words in sheep's clothing (1969) (8)
- A New Methodology for Romance Classification (1949) (8)
- Invitation to Linguistics: A Basic Introduction to the Science of Language, (1965) (7)
- Wanted : a world language (1969) (6)
- Weasel words: The art of saying what you don't mean (1978) (6)
- The Language of the Eighth Century Texts in Northern France (1935) (6)
- Language for Everybody (1957) (5)
- A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English Origins (1959) (5)
- Languages in the Post-war World1 (1943) (4)
- The Families Of Words (1962) (4)
- A comparative practical grammar of French, Spanish and Italian (1949) (4)
- What Languages Are Our Soldiers Up Against (1944) (3)
- How to Build a Better Vocabulary (1961) (3)
- The Function of Languages in the Post-War World (1944) (3)
- All About Language (1954) (3)
- Voices of man : the meaning and function of language (1965) (3)
- The story of English (1952) (3)
- Language For Everybody: What It Is And How To Master It (1958) (3)
- One World? One Language? (1947) (2)
- Latin and Italian Final Front Vowels (1943) (2)
- A Modern Language Teacher Replies (1945) (2)
- Suggestions for the Practical Teaching of the Sounds of Many Languages (1945) (2)
- French precursors of the Chanson de Roland (1948) (2)
- Getting along in Spanish (1958) (2)
- Languages for War and Peace (1945) (2)
- Invitation to Linguistics (1965) (2)
- The Lexicon Webster dictionary : with a historical sketch of the English language (1971) (2)
- A Rational Program for Teaching Languages in American High Schools (1945) (2)
- The language of the eight[h]-century texts in northern France : a study of the original documents in the collection of Tardif and other sources (1935) (2)
- The many hues of English (1967) (2)
- Our names, where they came from and what they mean (1960) (2)
- Dictionary of foreign terms (1975) (2)
- Three Works on Italian Proverbs, Sayings and Idioms@@@Canti e proverbi maieratesi@@@Italian Idioms with Proverbs@@@A Dictionary of Colorful Italian Idioms (1967) (1)
- It Comes to Languages—But Is It Science? (1946) (1)
- Spanish-English Military Language Manual (1944) (1)
- Languages for the Very Young (1948) (1)
- Opportunities in Foreign Languages (1955) (1)
- Education for Peace (1946) (1)
- The New World Spanish-English and English-Spanish dictionary. (1974) (1)
- University and Collegiate Syllabus for the Formation of the Professional Polyglot Technician (1945) (1)
- The Function of Languages in Global War (1943) (1)
- Teaching Foreign Languages in the Modern World (1962) (1)
- English-Italian Italian-English Technical Dictionary (1961) (1)
- Our National Heritage (1967) (1)
- Language of the specialists : a communications guide to twenty different fields (1966) (1)
- Ab and the Survival of the Latin Genitive in Old Italian (1948) (1)
- Talking Russian before You Know It (1946) (1)
- Getting Along in Russian (1960) (1)
- The State of Linguistics: Reply to a Mechanist (1946) (0)
- Interlingua-English Dictionary@@@Interlingua; A Grammar of the International Language (1952) (0)
- A Glimpse of the Chinese Language: Peking's Language Reforms and the Teaching of Chinese in the United States (1966) (0)
- Artificial Languages: International (Auxiliary) (1974) (0)
- The American Road to Peace. A Constitution for the World (1946) (0)
- Invitation to Linguistics. A Basic Introduction to the Science of Language@@@The Story of Language (1966) (0)
- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS MOST COMMONLY USED (1941) (0)
- Talking Your Way Around the World (1971) (0)
- Tales of the natural and supernatural (1972) (0)
- Leave your language alone (1950) (0)
- Some Comments on Spelling Reform (1946) (0)
- Languages for Post-War Trade (1946) (0)
- Etruscan and Indo-European Case-Endings (1945) (0)
- Language today : a survey of current linguistic thought (1967) (0)
- Getting along in French : a Holiday magazine language book (1958) (0)
- Multi-Language Recording ( 33sstyle 1 3 RPM) (1962) (0)
- Changing Times—Changing Words (1958) (0)
- Scandinavian for War and Peace. (1945) (0)
- Fashions in Language (1951) (0)
- Studies in Romance philology and literature (1964) (0)
- The world's chief languages : formerly languages for war and peace (1960) (0)
- The America we lost : the concerns of a conservative (1968) (0)
- New Italian Self-Taught (1982) (0)
- External History of the Romance Languages (1975) (0)
- The International Language (1959) (0)
- Esperanto and Interlingua Compared (1958) (0)
- Freedom Under Fascism (1935) (0)
- Italian as a War Language, and beyond (1944) (0)
- Getting along in Portuguese (1958) (0)
- Old French Demonstratives (1936) (0)
- The 1956 New York City Language Syllabus and the FL Scene (1957) (0)
- A Further Blast against Jargon (1953) (0)
- Aspects of Language (1955) (0)
- Our Influence on Italian (1950) (0)
- First-Year French, a Conversational Grammar and Reader (1950) (0)
- Partridge on Usage (1955) (0)
- Language in human society (1970) (0)
- Six New Language Books (1946) (0)
- Some Current Trends in Linguistic Works@@@Structural Linguistics, An Introduction for Teachers and Administrators@@@English as a Second Language: From Theory to Practice@@@The ABC's of Language and Linguistics@@@Linguistics: The Study of Language@@@Elements of General Linguistics@@@Introducing Lingu (1965) (0)
- Contributions to The Modern Language Journal. (1970) (0)
- The Loom of Language@@@Interglossa (1944) (0)
- Rejoinder by Professor Pei (1944) (0)
- Blurred Vision: The disturbing impact of Elecronic Media (1976) (0)
- C. Dionisotti and C. Grayson, editors, Early Italian Texts . Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1949. Pp. vi, 170. (1950) (0)
- Getting along in French (1961) (0)
- The consumer's manifesto (1960) (0)
- Liberal Arts Dictionary in English, French, German [and] Spanish (1952) (0)
- Three Millennia of (Neo-)Latin@@@The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages@@@The Tongues of Italy@@@Il linguaggio d'Italia (1976) (0)
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