Language: History & General Works

This book offers an updated and comprehensive view of the possibilities of didactic audiovisual translation (didactic AVT or DAT) in language educa...

Where do our everyday words come from? The bagel you eat for breakfast, the bumf you have to wade through at the office, and the bus that takes you...

Careful writers and speakers agree that clichés are generally to be avoided. However, nearly all of us continue to use them. Why do they persist in...

Telling and compelling Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book David Crystal, author of Ho...

Have you ever wondered whether we are alone in the universe, or if life forms on other planets might exist? If they do exist, how might their langu...

Exploring the roles of students pluralistic linguistic and transnational identities at the university level, this book offers a novel approach to t...

Is there a special niche reserved for women's language? This is the theory tested empirically by the authors of Women's language, by means of an ex...

Words change: they immigrate and emigrate. They reflect changing fashions and roam across centuries. This book delves into their origins: Where do...

The Oxford Companion to the English Language provides an authoritative single-volume source of information about the English language. It is intend...

The global spread of English has had widespread linguistic, social, and cultural implications, affecting the lives of millions of people around the...

Anyone writing texts in English is constantly faced with the unavoidable question whether to use open spelling (drinking fountain), hyphenation (fa...

This lively account of the making of Canadian English traces the variety's conceptual, social and linguistic developments from the twentieth centur...

This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposi...

This concise textbook provides students with an engaging and thorough overview of the history of Spanish and its development from Latin. Presupposi...

Providing a detailed and comprehensive account of the development of phrasal verbs from early modern to present-day English, this study covers almo...