Language: History & General Works

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...

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

This is an etymological study of the origins of the word kibosh, which has long been one of the great mysteries of the English language. Unconvinci...

The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English langua...

A textbook overview of the structure, use and diversity of Modern Scots This textbook overview of Modern Scots provides a description and analysis ...

Originally published in 1927, The World of Imagery is a study of the use of metaphor, simile, and other forms of literary imagery from the ancient ...

Have you ever looked at a word and thought: I wonder where that came from? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin ...

This collection calls for greater attention to the need for a clearer understanding of the role of discourse in the process of placemaking in the d...

This volume sheds light on the argumentative role of metaphor in climate change discourse, unpacking the ways in which stakeholders use specific me...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of TED talks as a digital-multimodal video genre, exploring the ways in which myriad rhetorical, structur...

No man of letters savers the ABC's, or serves them up, like language-loving humorist Roy Blount Jr. His glossary, from ad hominy to zizz, is hearty...

Uncovering the complexity of linguistic diversity and semiotic creativity, this book examines the issues of power, affect, and identity in both phy...

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text ...

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fan...

Plain Language: A Psycholinguistic Approach employs principles from the field of psycholinguistics to explore factors that make a sentence or text ...