Language: History & General Works

Assessment in Second Language Pronunciation highlights the importance of pronunciation in the assessment of second language speaking proficiency. L...

First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close anal...

Maintaining English as the sole language of knowledge production and dissemination in universities that enrol students who speak multiple languages...

First published in 1900, this volume was edited from a unique 1440 A.D. manuscript residing in Salisbury Cathedral. As a penitential manual, it joi...

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 ...

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study o...

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harv...

First published in 1966, this book is contributed to by authors who share an interest in the literary uses of language. The book gives a close anal...

Democratic Vernaculars is a comprehensive, culturally inclusive, and thematically unified history of the communicative, audience-centered rhetorica...

This concise guide outlines core theoretical and methodological developments of the growing field of Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis.The volume u...

Linguistics and Law offers a clear and concise introduction to making sense of the law through linguistics. Drawing on lexical semantics, syntax, a...

This book unpacks a 30-year debate about the pluricentricity of German. It examines the concept of pluricentricity, an idea implicit to the study o...

As an issue of controversy, corrective or negative feedback has been a much debated and investigated topic in theory and research on second-languag...

In this book, leading scholars in the field of World Englishes (WE) offer fresh perspectives in re-thinking issues on the use of English as a globa...

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creativ...

Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker.There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia from iconic Australianisms...

People in the Nordic states Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland rank as among the most proficient speakers of English in the world. In ...

Language teaching and learning were crucial to Europeans colonial, national, and individual enterprises in the Levant, and in these processes, Orie...

A chronological illustrated analysis of fifty-eight years of work by the collective Art & Language   Art & Language is an artists collectiv...

This collection critically examines the practical impacts of machine translation (MT) through the lens of an ethics of care. It addresses the ideol...

This accessible textbook introduces the core concepts and issues of translation relevant for the training of audiovisual translators.Structured aro...

This accessible textbook introduces the core concepts and issues of translation relevant for the training of audiovisual translators.Structured aro...