Language: History & General Works

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...

It is widely recognized that language is humanitys most distinctive and valuable faculty. In this work, originally published in 1974, Roger Fowler ...

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...

Provocative yet sober, Digital Critical Editions examines how transitioning from print to a digital milieu deeply affects how scholars deal with th...

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...

Have you ever wondered where your town or townland name came from? Do you want to know more about an Irish locality? Well if so this is the book fo...

A hugely entertaining and well-written tour of the links between math and literature. Harts lightness of touch and passion for both su...

Ever wondered who 'the Joneses' were? Or what the original 'peeping Tom' got up to? We all know that there was a ballerina named Pavlova and an ear...

Spellbound considers the history of English spelling and provides suggestions for modern day reform of its irregularities.The first half of the boo...

This volume deals with contemporary issues in the field of English studies in order to exchange ideas and experiences across the fields of English ...

The particular words, whose use and meaning is examined in this study, are commonly used by people with strong convictions about moral issues and i...

If youve ever studied a foreign language, you know what happens when you first truly and clearly communicate with another person. As Zora ONeill re...

Tracing the complete story of reading from the age when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day, Steven Roger F...

A joint project with the Indigenous Literary Foundation, Murli la is a beautifully designed gift book that celebrates the culture of the Tiwi Islan...