Language: History & General Works

A rich, provocative and entertaining history of women's words - of the language we have, and haven't, had to share our lives.'Fascinating, intrigui...

Despite their opposite emotional effects, humor and horror are highly similar phenomena. They both can be traced back to (the detection, resolution...

Successful word-coinages -- those that stay in currency for a good long time -- tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and ra...

Successful word-coinages -- those that stay in currency for a good long time -- tend to conceal their beginnings. We take them at face value and ra...

Adopting a corpus-based methodology, this volume analyses phraseological patterns in nine European languages from a monolingual, bilingual and mult...

This book revisits the issue of China English as a developing variety of English and scrutinises students and teachers attitudes towards their own ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THE ETYMOLOGICON. 'An informative but highly entertaining journey through the figures of ...

This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in an...

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. Th...

This book provides an integrated account of the main prepositions of English, outlining their various forms and illustrating contrastive senses. Th...

This volume is the first to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive history of phonology from the earliest known examples of phonological thinking,...

The German language holds an ambivalent and controversial place in the modern history of European Jews, representing differentoften conflictinghist...