Language: History & General Works

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...

The Routledge Handbook of Teaching English as an International Language provides a ground-breaking overview of the research on the global spread of...

Word roots with different structures may hold some semantic relation with each other. This is due to the presence of similar molecular constituents...

This book is a sequel to Geoffrey Sampson's well-received textbook Schools of Linguistics. Linguistics changed around the millennium; the advent of...

The resurgence of interest in the history of the English language has prompted this indispensable introductory guide to the scripts used in Old and...

The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging s...

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed...

Innovations and Challenges in Social Media Discourse Analysis provides a key introduction to the analysis of everyday discourse on social media pla...

Innovations and Challenges in Social Media Discourse Analysis provides a key introduction to the analysis of everyday discourse on social media pla...

Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Was ist ein Schnappreitel ? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch, das neben juristisch...

Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Wozu diente ein Reilenagel? Was ist ein Schnappreitel ? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswört...

1.200 Jahre Rechtssprache in Mitteleuropa. Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Was ist ein Sackmann? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche R...

Was hat Liebe mit Recht zu tun? Wozu diente ein Reilenagel? Was ist ein Schnappreitel ? Diese und andere Fragen beantwortet das Deutsche Rechtswört...

The expansion of the English state in the early modern era provoked resistance throughout Britain and Ireland, not least in Cornwall where this int...

This volume is the first book to focus specifically on the topic of comparative glossing. It brings together new research on glossing practices fro...

The English language is spoken by more than a billion people throughout the world. But where did English come from? And how has it evolved into the...

This book encourages further conversation on the expanding circle in World Englishes, offering a detailed look at China English through the academi...

Redensarten, Floskeln und Geflügelte Worte sind essentieller Bestandteil der deutschen Sprache. Die Einführung behandelt auf Basis empirischer und ...

Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards. One language is falling silent every...

Mizzle. Dreich. Raining knives and forks. A real mugga-fisty. A spot of plother...We Brits love talking about the weather. So much so that our isla...

This volume covers the language situation in Hong Kong, Timor-Leste and Sri Lanka explaining the linguistic diversity, the historical and political...

This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on translated video games and their c...

We Irish have enriched the English language with a slew of snazzy gems. Did you know were the ones behind quarks, electrons and vectors, Sudocrem a...

This book delves into Benjamin Franklins English, illustrating the variable nature of 18th-century American English and his stylistic manipulation ...

This volume collects essays that approach notions of creating, maintaining, and crossing boundaries in the history of the English language. The con...

Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; ...