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...

This volume collects ten studies that propose modern methodologies of analyzing and explaining language change in the case of various morpho-phonol...

This book showcases the unique possibilities of corpus linguistic methodologies in engaging with and analysing language data from social media, sur...

This book examines the validity of the notion of the vernacular and the position of the so-called vernaculars in colonial and postcolonial settings...

This innovative volume provides a new analytic framework for understanding how meaning-making resources are deployed in images designed for knowled...

Know your Arbroath smokies from your wynds, your trews from your sporran, and . . . lang may yer lum reek! Some say that Scots use more Scottish sl...

Based on the large corpora of journalistic English, this title examines dependency relations and related properties at both syntactic and discourse...

The dialects of English still spoken in Yorkshire, known collectively as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke or Yorkie, are both colourful and instantly recognis...

Why Study Linguistics is designed to help anyone with an interest in studying language understand what linguistics is, and what linguists do. Explo...

From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection o...

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Young Audiences offers a comprehensive overview of translation in the context of young audiences.The hand...

Arguably the first book-length exploration of decolonizing EFL writing education, this novel volume uses poetic autoethnography to provide a situat...

Method and Postmethod in Language Teaching provides a comprehensive, accessible, and engaging guide to the much-debated notions of method, methods,...

Language Attitudes and the Pursuit of Social Justice explores the relationship between language attitudes and forms of inequality and oppression, f...

The volume is a collection of papers which apply Role & Reference Grammar (RRG) to African languages. RRG is a functional theory of syntax whic...