Language: History & General Works

Founded in 1961, Studia Hibernica is devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore a...

Founded in 1961, Studia Hibernica is devoted to the study of the Irish language and its literature, Irish history and archaeology, Irish folklore a...

For some time already, a discourse within the field of Translation Studies has increasingly focused on the translator, his/her translation properti...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...

This groundbreaking work takes multimodality studies in a new direction by applying multimodal approaches to the study of poetry and poetics. The b...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**'Enthralling and exuberant ... Here is a wonder-book for word-lovers' Jeanette WintersonA l...

Study Skills for Linguistics is the essential companion for students embarking on a degree in linguistics. Covering all the core skills that studen...

A unique history of the Hebrew language from biblical times to the modern Jewish state This book explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has h...

The Irish language has made a huge contribution to the English language as its spoken in Ireland and beyond. Micheál Ó Conghaile's 'Colourful Iris...

'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convi...

What can the classification of languages tell us about human origins and human prehistory? This book presents a popular account of the origin of la...

Named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 Romanticism and the Rise of English addresses a peculiar development in contemporary literary cr...

Audiovisual translation is the fastest growing strand within translation studies.This book addresses the need for more robust theoretical framework...

English is now a global phenomenon no longer defined by fixed territorial, cultural and social functions. The Routledge Companion to English Studie...

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and th...

These poems attempt to apply the logic of an illiterate person writing the statement I cant read to poetry. They all failed. Enjoy.

Winner, Distinguished Literary Achievement, Missouri Humanities Council, 2015The story behind the writing of the best-selling Blue Highways is as f...

The Story of English is the extraordinary tale of the origins and development of the English language. Two thousand years ago English was confined...

1.200 Jahre Rechtssprache in Mitteleuropa. Die Geschichte der Wortbedeutungen wird mit einer Fülle von Quellenfunden aus den verschiedenen Jahrhund...

1.200 Jahre Wortgeschichte in Mitteleuropa. Viele Begriffe wie Obsentropf , Birngericht oder Mundraub bekamen im Gebrauch der Rechtssprache ihre be...

Diese Einführung informiert über die linguistischen Kerngebiete Lexikon und Morphologie, Phonologie, Syntax, Semantik und Pragmatik. Sie erläutert ...

Sprechen, Schreiben, Lesen, kommunikative Kompetenzen - die Einführung vermittelt die wesentlichen Kenntnisse zu allen Bereichen der Sprachdidaktik...

Exploring language, culture and education among immigrants in the United States, this volume discusses the range of experiences in raising children...

This volume provides a new critical text of the Prologue and the first two books of Venantius Fortunatus' Vita Sancti Martini, a work, written in t...

Extensively revised and updated, this second edition provides, in an A-Z format, an analysis of the most important generalizations that have been m...

The concept of politeness permeates all aspects of modern life and society. However, to what extent has this phenomenon changed over time? This boo...

This path-breaking study of the standardisation of English goes well beyond the traditional prescriptivism versus descriptivism debate. It argues t...

This is the first full-scale reference grammar of Classical Greek in English in a century. The first work of its kind to reflect significant advanc...

This innovative, investigative, and expansive handbook covers a multitude of angles through which the intricacies of Persian and its many dialects ...

The book shows how the system of English predicate complementation has been undergoing an amazing amount of variation and change in recent centurie...

*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*'Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent''Witty and affectionate...

Where does the ampersand get its name from? What does the hashtag have to do with commerce in ancient Rome? Keith Houston gives the answers in this...

In the century since its birth, the crossword has evolved into the world's most popular intellectual pastime: a unique form of wordplay, the codes ...

This book presents a historical account of the development of an acrolectal variety of the English language in colonial India. It highlights the ph...

This book proposes a novel analysis of Nominal Construction from the syntax-semantics interface. It is based on the newly developed framework of Ra...

Analyzes the state of the Welsh language at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This title aims to update our understanding of Welsh as a li...

A landmark reference guide to the LGBTQIA+ community's contributions to the English language-an intersectional, inclusive illustrated glossary feat...

Applicative Arguments: A Syntactic and Semantic Investigation of German and English presents formal semantic and syntactic analyses of German and E...

Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? provides a livel...

Pragmatics Pedagogy in English as an International Language aims to bring to light L2 pragmatics instruction and assessment in relation to English ...

A delightBooklistA richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing ...

'A delightful compendium' - Evening StandardHave you ever had a feeling that you couldn't quite describe, because no English word exists for it?Ind...