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...

Chinese Literature in English Sinology takes an exciting new approach to Sino-British literary and cultural encounters in the nineteenth century, f...

This user-friendly student guide is the essential resource for all those engaged in studying systemic functional linguistics (SFL).Assuming no prio...

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...

First published in 1990, Language in Popular Fiction was written to provide a comprehensive and illuminating look at the way language is used in th...

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

Jewish Languages from A to Z provides an engaging and enjoyable overview of the rich variety of languages spoken and written by Jews over the past ...

What kind of language is Latin, and who is it for? Contrary to most accounts, this book tells the story of Latin as a language of ordinary people. ...

First published in 1905, these two volumes together reproduced the text of Rawlinson MS. B 408 from the Bodleian Library in two parts. They consist...

First published in 1980, this study of two renowned later fourteenth century English poets, Chaucer and Langland, concentrates on some major and re...

First published in 1882, this volume formed the sixth part of a unique series of English-language Charlemagne romances. It contains three poetic te...

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.Assuming no prior knowledge, bo...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...